It’s the same with beer: you don’t buy it, you rent it!
copyright means just that...You can’t copy my book and sell it. Owners of the copyright and publishers are paid by the unit.
Redigi will lose this case because they’re claiming their software does something it cannot possibly do. There’s no way to prevent people from keeping a copy of the song. there’s too many loopholes available in the technology. The concept itself is interesting and probably should be legal, but the nature of file based property is that all sales are copies, and copying is exactly what copyright law is supposed to control.
Who gives a care if it’s legal. Do it anyway. Copyright law is idiotic, and at least you bought it legally the first time.
So if I have a yard sale and sell some of my old books, the Association of American Publishers will consider me a “criminal”? Nice.
Barnes and Noble’s monopoly over school textbook sales at universities needs to be investigated. It’s called price fixing.
If you have and old MP5 you want to sell let me know.
My heart doesn’t bleed for textbook publishers.
It wasn’t that long ago that I had to buy a 4th edition English book. I didn’t know the language had changed so much since the previous year.
Colleges rape students when it comes to books.
Then they rape their minds.
Yeah, now they tell us!!
I had to pay over $300 for my son’s Discrete math book at his university — new copies were ALL that were available — and no rentals to be had. Found out later the Chinese kids were downloading the book FOR FREE from China!!
At least the math book will be used over 3 courses.
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