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WOW Gold Sellers Feel the Wrath of PayPal

By james_fudge

World of Warcraft gold sellers using PayPal as their preffered methopd of payment are getting s suprise from the wholly-owned eBay subsidiary: a threatening letter.

Last week Blizzard sent out complaints to Paypal, accusing gold and virtual property resellers of "intilectual property violations. This week PayPal jumped on a number of companies, issuing the following letter:

"You were reported to PayPal as an Intellectual Properties violation by Blizzard Entertainment Inc. for the sale of World of Warcraft Merchandise.

If you feel your sales do not infringe upon the intellectual property rights of the Reporting Party, please complette the attached Objection to Infringement Report by January 21, 2011."

Companies can certainly appeal the ruling (to what end we do not know), but to be compliant they have to cease their activities and remove all incidents of "intilectual property violations." Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on February 01, 2011 (boomark / email).