I don't think the digital goods section should be removed, nor do I think it is filled with illegal offers.

First of all the laws that are allegedly broken when selling pirated software are IP laws which are generally not viewed as "just" and will not try to proactively enforce them.

Looking at the first 4 pages (158 threads) in the digital goods section, I found the following:
-9 threads that are selling accounts (e.g. netflix, HBOGo, etc.) that are priced at levels that they are likely stolen
-9 threads that are selling gift cards at a large enough of a discount that I can use common sense to say they were probably originally obtained illegitimately
-14 threads that are either selling MSDN related keys or apparently similarly obtained keys (note this is disputed by many, including me, that this is actually against the law)
-2 threads denoting that threads were moved to another section to account for why I only counted 158 threads above

This works out to roughly 20% of the threads on the first four pages that are selling potentially illegally obtained items, however that percentage drops to roughly 11% if you don't believe selling MSDN (and similar) keys is illegal.

Please note that the threads I counted are only apparently "illegal" and I have not actually found actual evidence that laws have been broken, I need to make certain assumptions to come to the conclusion that laws were broken. I also think it is fair to say that some small percentage of items being sold that are "tagged" as potentially illegally obtained are likely legitimately obtained but their seller is simply trying to get rid of them quickly.

This is how evil panda handled address changes. It also keeps the campaign manager accountable as they have documentation as to why they sent payment to specific addresses. People should be able to freely change their payment addresses at the start of a payment period though

The limits are to prevent people from scamming. They were instituted as a result of this thread which was complaining about phishing attempts and scam attempts via PM. The reason why people will not try this with a purchased account is that if they are caught trying to scam then their investment will disappear so people have an incentive not to scam with a purchased account (this incentive is not there when you go and create a brand new account and then make a few posts until it becomes a junior member).
There are a good number of people who run their business out of separate accounts from their "main" one.
It is much easier to tell that two accounts belong to the same person then it is to tell that one account no longer belongs to the previous owner. Not only that but there are a number of legit reasons to both buy and sell accounts so there is no good reason to prohibit their sale even if they reasonably could be detected and stopped

FYI - PayPal does not make for a very good escrow. Especially considering that disputes can be opened up to 180 days after payment is sent. Plus the fact that the funds used to pay for the miners could be stolen. It would make both parties much more safe if bitcoin was used and a on forum escrow was used.

That post is unedited. As long as you can sign a dated message with the address 1FUUJ2bz8VuYHWKQYQRY7tzh5BDuQUMJbP then the buyer should most likely be protected

Nope. He is very much against the trading of accounts.

If you can sign a message from an old address then that should be enough to prove ownership. The question was that there was a known hacked account from a long time ago. I am not sure if it received negative trust or not. I don't think there is a very big risk personally as long as the post that contains the btc address has not been edited.

I am not sure why they would care. I am not sure why you think they would care

Congratulations. You are the winner. I will PM you with a payment address shortly.

Obviously not, but when you receive 4k PM's over 10ish months then you will have a lot of periods when you need to send many more then 5 PM's per hour.

Most deals do not involve someone asking for a payment address on the 1st PM, most involve asking a number of questions and a good amount of back and forth negotiation. If you are limited to 5 PM's per hour then it would easily take two hours to get a deal done and that is assuming that the only people that ever PM you end up actually trading with you
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=973949.0

You have to wait 6 minutes between posts and can only send 5 PMs per hour which makes it extremely difficult to conduct business, especially when you have close to 4,000 PMs in your inbox. It drops to 74 seconds when you have 15 activity and 60 seconds with 60 activity and still have severely restrictive PMs limits.

You can earn .0015 per post with a hero account so you could make .6 per month by making 400 posts which is not unrealistic

Passports are not scarse and there is no waiting period to get one. If you are a citizen of the country then you can get one. Higher level accounts are scarse and it takes time for them to rank up.

You are only making yourself look like a fool by saying that you would use a passport to fix a table or a stool.

Signature deals, don't have to wait as long between posts/PMs having an avatar, getting to own something that is scarce/rare.

current high bid. Auction end time extended by 15 minutes due to anti snip rule.

You are an idiot. An older account has certain features that new accounts do not have. Unless you are doing business with someone, there is no identity to misrepresent.

It is illegal to sell your passport. It is not against any rule to sell accounts.

You are clearly misreprenting yourself as being a newer account when you clearly are not.

Lol. You are probably an alt of WC trying to scam just like you are with the auction of the wooden coin that you claim to be part of a puzzle that will lead to 5,000 BTC.

I have to give it to you that you are very good at trolling and entertaining.

he is asking if the OP is an alt of marcotheminer who took an account as collateral then the next day someone claimed that their account was hacked. I believe this was back in August of last year.

You have negative trust. I would not recommend anyone lend to you.

nope because there is no real reason to sell your passport however there are legit reasons to sell your bitcointalk account.

she scammed multiple people. She scammed someone else for ~$50 and there was an additional person who was claiming delays in receiving their keys.

No. It is more like he went to the OP's house, paid for it and didn't get a receipt. Then the seller is claiming that he did not actually sell the TV