 On September 6, 2005, WNDU-TV reported that the ESPC was mailing settlement demands to individual eBay buyers.According to one such demand letter, dated October 17, 2005, the buyers were identified by personal records provided by eBay and eBay sellers.The October 17 letter further claimed that buyers, by purchasing and possessing unlicensed copies of embroidery software or patterns, had violated United States copyright law.