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RIAA claims you do not own your iTunes music purchases

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Re: RIAA claims you do not own your iTunes music purchases

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Post by kmm »

rcfox wrote: post #12
jasonlotito wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good faith effort. It doesn't have to do it flawlessly. Same thing applies to physical media. How can you guarantee that I don't have access to the music after I've sold a CD. And while you might argue that their is a difference between CD's and digital music, the RIAA doesn't see it the same way. FTA: "the RIAA and MPAA have argued that purchasing a physical CD or DVD simply grants one a license to use the product r…

> Good faith effort. It doesn't have to do it flawlessly. From what I gather from TFA, they are nowhere near what the industry could consider a good faith effort. They basically need some way to invalidate the original file (and any illegitimate copies of it) while keeping the legitimate copy valid.

The only way to do that is to have the software ask the permission of a central server to be allowed to play a certain music file. Scary stuff.

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Post by lekashman »

I was really intrigued by the section on Amazon in this article, in that they don't bother with licensing and go directly to purchasing the book so they can lend it. I think that Amazon's practice in this regard is much more significant than ReDigi's activity as it could spell out how future libraries function with regard to ebooks.

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Post by tedunangst »

jasonlotito wrote: post #9
tedunangst wrote: post #4

"If ReDigi’s service can accurately prevent users from accessing songs they’ve sold to the service, then the RIAA’s rights have been legally preserved." Big if. How is ReDigi going to prevent users from downloading song backups from dropbox?

Good faith effort. It doesn't have to do it flawlessly. Same thing applies to physical media. How can you guarantee that I don't have access to the music after I've sold a CD. And while you might argue that their is a difference between CD's and digital music, the RIAA doesn't see it the same way. FTA: "the RIAA and MPAA have argued that purchasing a physical CD or DVD simply grants one a license to use the product r…

The physical medium is the key. The CD serves to identify the correct/original/authorized/licensed/whatever copy. If you can't identify the original, then actually you can't sell it (in the sense of it's not possible).

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Post by lurker17 »

reginaldo wrote: post #15
andylei wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this is good for overall volume, but if you're the author of the loss leader, you may get significantly less revenue

Ok. That makes sense... I was thinking about supermarkets/grocery stores when I originally asked the question, as they do this all the time. The situation is different when there's an author who'll complain.

More precisely, when Amazon sells a loss leader, they don't pay the author wholesale price. When a grocery sells milk cheap, they still pay full price to the dairy vendor.
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