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Lixtor is an Internet-auction website
operating in New
Zealand since 2005, as a free alternative to currently dominant
"paid" online-trading website in New Zealand, TradeMe. [1]
Lixtor's business model is substantially different from its
rival site TradeMe as it tries to operate its business on
advertising revenue rather than charging users on listing fees and
success fee. [2]
Controversy
On November 06, 2008 the National Business Review
reported on an article [1]
that Lixtor has been legally-threatened by TradeMe over "copyright
infringement" on their "Privacy Policy" and "Terms and Conditions".
However, Lixtor stated that it was rather a false-flagged operation
carried out by TradeMe to "intimidate" Lixtor because TradeMe was
threatened by Lixtor's "no fee" business model [1].
Following this dispute with TradeMe, Lixtor listed their auction
site for sale on TradeMe on November 17, 2008, with the starting
bid $100,000,000 [3
][4
]. The listing was listed with the option to
support Plunket by rounding up the success fee [3
]. However the auction was disabled by the TradeMe
administrators hours after the auction [4
][5
].
Nonetheless, Lixtor re-listed the auction minutes after their
listing was disabled by TradeMe moderators [4
], but this second listing was also removed hours
later [6
]. No more listings were reported after this [4
], possibly due to TradeMe's policy to suspend the
"suspicious" members [7
].
On November 20, 2008, a community newspaper The
Aucklander also reported that TradeMe's lawyers asked Lixtor
to remove their "Terms and Conditions" [8]
On February 3, 2009, in the wake of the emerging New Zealand
copyright law Section 92a, New Zealand
Creative Freedom Foundation published an article[9]. It was
stated that Lixtor vs. TradeMe case is a good example of how the
new section 92a in the New Zealand copyright law could be
"misused", if passed.
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