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Schadenfreude.

The Supreme Court is going to rule this term on one of its biggest copyright cases in years: a case of a Thai national who got sued for copyright infringement after he sold his used textbooks on eBay.

[credit provider=”Polycart via flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/polycart/5783407804/sizes/m/in/photostream/”] Time just shared a neat trick for getting extra markdowns from Internet retailers…Enter your items in the site’s shopping cart, but don’t buy anything.

Tomorrow begins one of the greatest disasters in the history of the Internet: the introduction of new top-level domain names, or “strings,” that come at the end of Web addresses.

[credit provider=”YouTube” url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_cKOe7MnDA”] For years, Overstock.com has been in a legal battle with Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and more. The online retailer accuses the banks of naked short-selling its stock.Overstock.com lost that battle, but they’re still trying to get the banks to unseal documents that would prove […]

[credit provider=”Wikimedia Commons” url=”http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overstock.com-coliseum-scoreboard.jpg”] Overstock.com made the decision to rebrand to O.co six months ago. It has been touting its super-shortened new name and image on its website and national TV since.But apparently, America isn’t ready for O.co. Not yet anyway, reports Beth Snyder Bulik at AdAge.

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[credit provider=”AP”] Overstock has said that Google dinging its search rankings has cost it 5% of revenue, Internet Retailer reports.The backstory is that Google caught Overstock buying links to boost its search rankings. That’s a big no-no for Google and so it dragged Overstock down on its search rankings.

Speaking on the Salt TV Network recently, President and CEO of Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) Patrick Byrne referred to his company as “bold” and revealed that, in November 2010, after four years of fighting, a judge forced Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) to turn over some documents that prompted Overstock to re-file […]

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation Thursday requiring Internet merchants to collect the state’s 6.25% sales tax, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The .co domain is hot… at least from a marketing perspective.

Until now, Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne had only alluded to the “Sith Lords” he claims are at the centre of the web of hedge fund and financial journalists that are destroying companies through rumour mongering and naked short selling.

Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne says the company will report its first annual profit soon.

Last week, a list of journalists appeared on the internet, along with every single one of their Facebook friends.

I’ve been perusing the wreckage left behind from “Larry Bergman,” the phony Facebook account used by Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne in his pretexting and identity theft scheme to stalk critics. What I’ve found was that this pretexting scheme was the full time occupation of his creepy cyberstalker, the nauseating Judd […]

The reaction to a campaign to infiltrate an alleged network of naked short sellers by using a phony Facebook profile to befriend several bloggers, old media journalists, and a couple of fund managers may not be what Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne and Judd Bagely were hoping for.

Just sayin’. (Probably has something to do with this)

Earlier this week, several bloggers and journalists, like Barry Ritholtz, Gary Weiss, and Felix Salmon, discovered that Overstock.com (OSTK) CEO Patrick Byrne had created a list of all their Facebook friends.

Earlier we mentioned how Overstock’s (OSTK) Patrick Byrne had produced a page of journalists he didn’t like, along with each one of their Facebook friends.

Facebook rolled out new privacy settings this morning. The basic change is that Facebook now encourages users to broadcast their status messages, photo/video uploads and profile updates to everyone, not just their friends.

This is amazing and disturbing though not at all surprising.

The pissing match between Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne and his former accounting firm continues.

Last week, Overstock.com took the bizarre step of firing its accounting firm and filing a quarterly SEC document that had not been reviewed. 

Overstock.com (OSTK), which is again under investigation for accounting issues, has fired its auditor, Grant Thornton.  As of now, therefore, Overstock no longer has an accounting firm.

This is stunning.

(This guest post originally appeared at the author’s blog)

For all CNBC’s problems, this is the kind of bush-league move it would never pull.

Online retailer Overstock.com’s regulatory troubles continue.

State tax rolls have been so decimated there’s an effort in Washington to squeeze local taxes out of web retailers to make up the difference. The New York Post reports that a bill is likely to be introduced this week to force eBay, Amazon and others to start collecting sales […]

Today’s stories about Jim Chanos allegedly getting a heads-up on an analyst’s report about Toronto insurer Fairfax Financial before the rest of us is bad news for the famed short-seller. It could be even worse news for the rest of the shorts.

Talky Overstock.com (OSTK) CEO Patrick Byrne is still blaming short sellers for his company’s woes. The new twist: He’s now lashing out at CNBC journalists — while appearing on their rival Fox Business Network.

Jason Lindsey quit Overstock’s board and management on December 31, 2007. Here’s the vintage explanation from Overstock’s irrepressible CEO Patrick Byrne: “Jason co-founded the company and helped build it before retiring the first time. When I screwed it up a couple years ago, he came out of retirement and has […]

Chatty Overstock CEO and majority shareholder Patrick Byrne ventured onto CNBC last Friday after the market close and announced that the company was having “a nice Christmas.” He then also casually mentioned that the company’s gross margins were getting hammered (presumably as a result of the discounting necessary for the […]