EBay has begun monitoring items for sale on its site for possible copyright infringement in response to pressure from software makers and intellectual property interests.
The new program has removed about 12 listings per day for software, movies, music and other copyrighted content since it began in December.
The software industry's anti-piracy trade group and manufacturers of copyright products, such as Microsoft Corp., pushed for the change.
"We realize the concerns that intellectual property rights owners have with infringing items," eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove said Wednesday. "We want to work with them."
The program is staffed by 15 full-time employees. For software sales alone, the company has two full-time lawyers devoted to fraud prevention, as well as a software-industry liaison and a special e-mail queue for industry complaints.
The company also has instituted a policy to prohibit the sale of anything recorded on a blank compact disc, and it stops sales of certain types of DVD players and gaming equipment that can be used with illegally copied media.
Copyright infringement ranks as the software industry's No. 1 issue, with losses of billions of dollars.<
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