This story gets more fishy by the hour.

Wouldn't the people who are in the pix be entitled to any cash?

The money-grabbing bint in the story certainly isn't the creator of the work.

Firstly, it's a brilliant idea..

Secondly, it'll be pulled by eBay before it finishes..

Thirdly, do we get to see what said University girl looks like??

...to try and punt indecent images on their flea market site?

The thing about copyright is, it has to do with the making of copies. She isn't.

Seems to me, it'd be a legitimate sale under first sale doctrine.

Ah yes, I hadn't thought of that!

Just how anal would you have to be, to complain about this sort of thing?

Surely someone should look into selling mobiles pre-loaded with amateur pr0n. Given the amounts available on the web it must be a huge market and you could have fun trying to play "spot the star" round town.

<quote>shots of the woman in her bra and pulling her pants down".

Cue outrage, internal investigations, demands for compensation, and so forth.</quote>

Internal investigations? I bet there were!

Fnar.

Reading the adults only restrictions, it seems to say that this may or may not be covered by those rules, at the sole discretion of eBay and depends what mood they're in. So yeah, probably gonna be pulled.

If she were selling the photos on CD then it would be covered but she may be selling it with the caveat that these photos are there and she doesn't know how to get rid of them. Which may or may not breach their terms depending on their mood.

Bill, because Paris wouldn't get out of bed for this story.

"The money-grabbing bint in the story certainly isn't the creator of the work."

Are we *really* sure of that?

Do the phones put a time stamp on the pictures, e.g. in the file system?

haha sooo funny, be interesting to see if

a) ebay doesnt pull it (the phone that is)

b)how much some gimp will pay for this.

Paris because 49 pr0n piccies of her on a phone would fetch more than this will.

the guy sold it with a 32MB memory card, I paid for it in person (low-rated ebayer). he hadn't done a factory reset, so I did it and he was happy.

a few days later I discovered that there were some dodgy hard-core pix of him on the memory stick. fortunately for him, I'm not the sort of barsteward who'd upload them or sell them back to him, I simply deleted them. never told him, I figured ignorance is bliss.

ok, so your ethical test would be if you bought a phone or camera off ebay and it, unknowingly, had been owned by a celebutard and had some interesting pictures.... what would you do:

1/ sell to Sun

2/ share/upload and humilate

3/ blackmail

4/ quietly delete and never tell anyone

This is a beat-up from some bimbo who wants cas$h from Woolworths (the owners of Dick Smith electronics in Australia)

9 out of 10 Aussies would have thought this was a bonus - this biatch is just going for her 5 mins of fame....

I would love to know the identity of the shop girl - I might go and buy a HD video camera off her....

Paris - because she knows what it's like to have images such as these shared globally.....

Zero proof has been demonstrated that this isn't a hoax at this point. The media (specifically, the Cairns Post) have just picked it up and all the other papers have taken it as gospel.

I would not be surprised in the slighest if it was a hoax, esp given Dick Smith hasn't been able to get the phone.

Paris, because somebody at Dick Smith should give her a job.

ok, so your ethical test would be if you bought a phone or camera off ebay and it, unknowingly, had been owned by a celebutard and had some interesting pictures.... what would you do:

1/ sell to Sun

2/ share/upload and humilate

3/ blackmail

4/ quietly delete and never tell anyone

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Well... 3 is likely to get you arrested and not be much fun, 4 would be kinda dumb!

So I think I would have to sell it to the Sun, and THEN upload it after I got my money :)

So looking at the comments , how jaded and cynical we have become in the 21st century of propaganda of flogging guilt before proof of being innocent and so forth(with politicians that be a different matter as they are always guilty of misconduct and lying at any time for that is the nature of that particular beast throughout human history).

However in Oz , surprise , surprise with high tech gadgets like mobile phones reselling return stock as new or demo models is a fairly frequent problem and a number of units have had some questionable photographs as well.

As for the Store manager in question he/she be a total wanker given the latitude they have been given .

But also how soon we forget with flash memory delete does not mean delete either , choices indeed ?