Who owns stuff that falls onto someone's property?

[Steve Schear]

At 06:01 PM 2/1/2003 -0600, John Bethencourt <bethenco at upl.cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:31:16PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
> >
> > Expect the first EBay auctions of debris from the "Columbia" to be a
> > constitutional issue soon. (Actually, the censors at fascist EBay have
> > probably already flagged any transactions which mention "space shuttle"
> > and "Columbia" to be illegal thoughtcrime sales.)
>
>Yep, ebay has already removed such auctions, e.g., item #2156954390,
>`SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA PIECE OF WRECKAGE PART'.

Perhaps this is an opportunity for competitive, even offshore, auction 
sites to take the fore.

http://www.goldbarter.com uses  e-gold.

steve