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<p>[QUOTE="floirdatinman, post: 1293864, member: 29131"]Today i did talk with lawyer about what happen and was told that till i am charged with something not to worry about it as this dose happen alot (that is taking photos of us currency and posting them on sites.) In all they will go after about 5 to 15 thousand people a year. and that is what may happen to me and the most i will get is a big fine, but as long as i did not try to print any money with my computer that would be all i get.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As some one asked me how did all this happen. Yes i first e-mailed BEP asking them about the old food coupons i did try to sale on e-bay from there they looked at my site there to see what i was talking about. And seen the other currency i had sold there and as it had my address there for them, they turned it over to the FBI just to check and make sure i was not printing the currency with my photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now i did ask the lawyer about e-bay rules in that they tell you to have a photo of the currency you are trying to sale. He told me you can't put this off on them as they do not tell you it must be in color and the law is you can do it<b><u> but it must be in black and white.</u></b></p><p> So what i get out of all this is that it may happen every day of the week and they can't go after every one, but they do go after some and some sites on this. So from now on i will not post any color photo of any thing i want to sale on e-bay or any other site. </p><p><br /></p><p>So i may have brought this on myself yes, but i was asking the question (if e-bay is saying you can't sale the old food coupons, and the USDA is saying yes you can) that would mean some one is lien about it and with 64 billion dollars going into this why is some one lien about it? could some one be making alot of money off of this as most of the money comes out of SSI and soon it will be broke. And again<b><i><u> no one cares. but every one will talk about the gov, waste </u></i></b></p><p><b><i><u><br /></u></i></b></p><p><b><i><u>this something the lawyer sent to me </u></i></b></p><p><b><i><u><br /></u></i></b></p><p><b><i><u></u></i></b><span style="color: #1F497D">Title 18 U.S.C. §504 </span><span style="color: red">establishes an exception</span><span style="color: #1F497D"> to this prohibition that permits the printing or publishing of illustrations of obligations or securities of the United States provided that (1) the illustrations are </span><span style="color: red">in black and white</span><span style="color: #1F497D">; (2) the illustrations are of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of any matter illustrated; and (3) the negatives and plates used in making the illustrations are destroyed after their final use. </span></p><p><span style="color: #1F497D"> </span></p><p><span style="color: #1F497D"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #1F497D"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="floirdatinman, post: 1293864, member: 29131"]Today i did talk with lawyer about what happen and was told that till i am charged with something not to worry about it as this dose happen alot (that is taking photos of us currency and posting them on sites.) In all they will go after about 5 to 15 thousand people a year. and that is what may happen to me and the most i will get is a big fine, but as long as i did not try to print any money with my computer that would be all i get. As some one asked me how did all this happen. Yes i first e-mailed BEP asking them about the old food coupons i did try to sale on e-bay from there they looked at my site there to see what i was talking about. And seen the other currency i had sold there and as it had my address there for them, they turned it over to the FBI just to check and make sure i was not printing the currency with my photos. Now i did ask the lawyer about e-bay rules in that they tell you to have a photo of the currency you are trying to sale. He told me you can't put this off on them as they do not tell you it must be in color and the law is you can do it[B][U] but it must be in black and white.[/U][/B] So what i get out of all this is that it may happen every day of the week and they can't go after every one, but they do go after some and some sites on this. So from now on i will not post any color photo of any thing i want to sale on e-bay or any other site. So i may have brought this on myself yes, but i was asking the question (if e-bay is saying you can't sale the old food coupons, and the USDA is saying yes you can) that would mean some one is lien about it and with 64 billion dollars going into this why is some one lien about it? could some one be making alot of money off of this as most of the money comes out of SSI and soon it will be broke. And again[B][I][U] no one cares. but every one will talk about the gov, waste this something the lawyer sent to me [/U][/I][/B][COLOR=#1F497D]Title 18 U.S.C. §504 [/COLOR][COLOR=red]establishes an exception[/COLOR][COLOR=#1F497D] to this prohibition that permits the printing or publishing of illustrations of obligations or securities of the United States provided that (1) the illustrations are [/COLOR][COLOR=red]in black and white[/COLOR][COLOR=#1F497D]; (2) the illustrations are of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of any matter illustrated; and (3) the negatives and plates used in making the illustrations are destroyed after their final use. [/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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