{"id":1619,"date":"2008-07-01T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/EBay_Gets_YouTubeNapster_Treatment_In_France"},"modified":"2008-07-01T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T08:30:00","slug":"ebay-gets-hit-by-frances-handbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"EBay Gets Hit By France&#8217;s Handbag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old joke about the French surrendering to anyone and anything, but one place France never surrenders is in the courtroom where money is involved. If you&#8217;re a foreign firm doing business in France and your business model rubs an established French business the wrong way, the French court system isn&#8217;t shy about whacking you with the big stick. EBay is the latest company to take a beating in Paris. They&#8217;ve been ordered to pay LVMH, the maker of luxury brand goods like Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior,&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old joke about the French surrendering to anyone and anything, but one place France never surrenders is in the courtroom where money is involved. If you&#8217;re a foreign firm doing business in France and your business model rubs an established French business the wrong way, the French court system isn&#8217;t shy about whacking you with the big stick. EBay is the latest company to take a beating in Paris. They&#8217;ve been ordered to pay LVMH, the maker of luxury brand goods like Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior,&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1619\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}