The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) is planning to sue eBay for failing to do enough to prevent the sale of pirated softwares on its website.

The SIIA claims that all eBay does is just take down the auctions that SIIA has deemed Pirated. According to Keith Kuperschmid, senior VP of intellectual property policy and enforcement for SIIA, eBay is not taking any proactive measures to reduce the sale of pirated software from its site.

Few of these measures include, placing a notification in the buyer feedback that the seller has had pirated items removed from the website, penalize sellers of illegal software, even if it's there first offence, and develop technology to try to find repeat offenders who use multiple identities on eBay.

According to the SIIA estimates, up to 75 percent of all software sold on eBay is illegal and the volume is so large that the group cannot even identify all the offenders.

On the other hand eBay claims that they are doing enough to keep the pirates away from the website.

Recently, a case was ruled in favor of eBay, wherein the Jewelry Company Tiffany sued eBay, claiming that the buyers believed the inferior items sold on the website were from Tiffany.

But SIIA says that the above case was different because it was regarding trademark violations, whereas SIIA's allegations involve laws related to Copyright.

SIIA is backed by some of the major software companies, such as IBM and oracle, and it has already filed 32 lawsuits this year against the sellers of pirated softwares on auction sites.