I like Iago's Pyramid chart of argumentation and logical fallacies in the Announcements board.
Can I steal it? 

Sounds like the title if a YA thriller, with eBay fighting evil pirates ripping off the legitimate sales of authors (like Jim Butcher and Richelle Mead). Not the case, though.  eBay pays no attention to copyright infringement unless somebody goes to the trouble of verifying it and reporting it to them, and THEN they won't end a listing unless and until they can actually get in touch with the rights holder and verify that what's being sold is an unauthorized copy. Meanwhile, sales go on as usual, and eBay, their PayPal subsidiary, and the pirates all rake in the profits on the sales. When a publisher's lawyers get in touch with eBay, they will end the listing and revoke the seller's ID, so the seller picks another ID and goes back into business as usual, and the cycle starts all over again.

It used to be a lot of work to be a Book Pirate, they'd actually have to buy a copy, or at least check it out from the library, and physically scan the pages.  Now, with the rise of ebooks and audio books, lots and lots of people have figured it's an easy, no-risk way to steal, using eBay to fence the goods. Somebody gets one copy of a legitimate ebook, uses software to convert it to a PDF file, and can then crank out an infinite number of copies. From what I can see from looking around eBay, some of the sellers may have bought some other pirate's CD originally, and now they're cranking out pirated copies of some other pirate's pirated booty. I saw a couple of amusing instances of Negative Feedback, where one pirate complained another seller was pirating him, and then leaving negative feedback about the first pirate to drive buyers to the new pirate's CD. There is no honor among thieves. 

Going to the main site, I get redirected here: http://box526.bluehost.com/suspended.page/
The smileys and some of the avatars are gone again, too.

Every time I've gone onto jimbutcheronline.com today to get into the forums, I get a warning message from Norton Antivirus that JS.Downloader, a javascript program listed as a threat has been blocked. I haven't gotten that prompt on any other website but this one. Not sure if it's a coincidence, or not, but I clicked on several other web sites in a row, then came back here, and got the warning again. I'm doing a full system scan on my PC now, but I thought I'd give you a heads up.

*Edit- I did some further experimenting. I don't get the warning message when I go to the main Jim Butcher page, www.jim-butcher.com, only when I click to go to the Forums at www,jimbutcheronline.com, and again when I clicked to go to this particular forum for Suggestions and Support. This didn't occur when I was here yesterday, so something has changed since then.

Romance writer, publisher split up over plagiarism claims
Published: 4/18/08, 7:46 PM EDT
By HILLEL ITALIE
NEW YORK (AP) - Romance writer Cassie Edwards and publisher Signet Books have decided to break up after allegations emerged in January that in she lifted passages in several of her books from other sources.

"Signet has conducted an extensive review of all its Cassie Edwards novels and due to irreconcilable editorial differences, Ms. Edwards and Signet have mutually agreed to part ways," the publisher said in a statement Friday.

"Cassie Edwards novels will no longer be published with Signet Books. All rights to Ms. Edwards' previously published Signet books have reverted to the author."

Signet publicist Craig Burke said that the publisher, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), would have no additional comment. Edwards, whose many books include "Bold Wolf," "Silver Feather" and "Falcon Moon," was not immediately available for comment.

A romance novel Web site called Smart B------, Trashy Books posted excerpts in January from Edwards' novels and placed them alongside similar passages from reference books and magazines.

Penguin initially said that Edwards, who lives in Mattoon, Ill., had "done nothing wrong" and that any use of other texts was protected by "fair-use doctrine."

Edwards has written more than 100 novels, although not all with Penguin, which has said that more than 10 million copies of her work are in print.

"Writing my Indian romances is my small tribute to those beautiful first people of our land who have suffered so much injustice," Edwards writes on her home page on Penguin's Web site. "And I have just begun. My upcoming books will continue with more passion and adventure and rich historical settings. Enjoy!"

In a phone interview in January, the author told The Associated Press that she indeed "takes" material from other works, but said she didn't know she was supposed to credit her sources. She then asked her husband to get on the phone. Charles Edwards said the author got only "ideas" from other books and did not "lift passages."

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On the Net: http://us.penguingroup.com

An Internet article on writing Internet articles, for money: http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?bfromind=8390&eeid=5771920&_sitecat=214&dcatid=0&eetype=article&render=y&ac=0&ck=&ch=ne&s=sc

Pat Elrod has a FAQ page on her website for wannabe writers that covers a lot of things that have been discussed here, such as fanfic. There are a lot of helpful links to other places on the Web for writers to get info, find agents, gather in writers' forums, etc. Lots of good stuff: http://www.vampwriter.com/FAQ-WRITING.htm