Lamourlady
May 4th, 2003, 04:18 PM
linky (http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2002/usedcd.html)
i know this is an old article, but it is a noteworthy editorial that i knew nothing about.
so just incase u were unaware of how very greedy the record industry really is.....this is just one more way to prove it.
i am absolutely appalled, yet, once again.
just like i always thought...
They shouldn't, they made their money on the CD already and, once sold, that disc became what the legal community calls chattel, i.e. a possession that can be re-sold, traded, lent, or given away by its owner.
According to the Tribune the record industry is considering charging used CD retailers a royalty for every CD they resell. That falls in line with the "rent" theory Big Music wishes to push on consumers. You can't resell that CD because you don't own it. Therefore, they are entitled to additional rent once it leaves your hand and goes to another.
As they say in the UK, Bollocks!
do u hear authors crying when i've finished a book and sell it in my yard sale for 50 cents????
not yet.....i mean i paid a fair amount the first time for the book, why can't i allow someone else to enjoy it. i might have turned them on to the author and they will in turn, go out and buy another title by that author.
i just can't say how much i am disgusted by this whole frickin' thing.
and what makes the intellectual property of an author of a book so different than that of the musical artists, where the musical artists can receive royalties many years beyond, even their death, to their surviving family?
i wish i did know a bit more about computing.
and that is all i can say.
again, i can refer u to my post concerning the RIAA basturds
where i touch upon the same questions the author of this article has...http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5986&perpage=15&pagenumber=2
i know this is an old article, but it is a noteworthy editorial that i knew nothing about.
so just incase u were unaware of how very greedy the record industry really is.....this is just one more way to prove it.
i am absolutely appalled, yet, once again.
just like i always thought...
They shouldn't, they made their money on the CD already and, once sold, that disc became what the legal community calls chattel, i.e. a possession that can be re-sold, traded, lent, or given away by its owner.
According to the Tribune the record industry is considering charging used CD retailers a royalty for every CD they resell. That falls in line with the "rent" theory Big Music wishes to push on consumers. You can't resell that CD because you don't own it. Therefore, they are entitled to additional rent once it leaves your hand and goes to another.
As they say in the UK, Bollocks!
do u hear authors crying when i've finished a book and sell it in my yard sale for 50 cents????
not yet.....i mean i paid a fair amount the first time for the book, why can't i allow someone else to enjoy it. i might have turned them on to the author and they will in turn, go out and buy another title by that author.
i just can't say how much i am disgusted by this whole frickin' thing.
and what makes the intellectual property of an author of a book so different than that of the musical artists, where the musical artists can receive royalties many years beyond, even their death, to their surviving family?
i wish i did know a bit more about computing.
and that is all i can say.
again, i can refer u to my post concerning the RIAA basturds
where i touch upon the same questions the author of this article has...http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5986&perpage=15&pagenumber=2