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Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law



On 5/8/07, Jostein Elvaker Haande <tolecnal@tolecnal.net> wrote:
I'm left speechless, honestly...
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070507-record-shops-used-cds-ihre-papieren-bitte.html

RIAA crap aside, it's true that CDs are easy to steal and easy to
sell.  A good friend's apartment was burgled a number of years ago,
and pretty much all that was stolen was his CD collection.  Many of
those were difficult to find at that time, and the total value was
many hundreds of dollars, probably thousands ($15/CD adds up).

A 30 day moratorium on re-sale doesn't hurt the store that much, the
seller still gets paid, and if the discs were stolen, the victim has
some chance of recovery.  That does not, of course, justify incredibly
invasive personal data collection.  At most, you could keep
collections sold together in a single lot during the embargo period,
and require the seller to sign a simple agreement.  The agreement
wouldn't even need to have any force of law behind it.  It'd mostly be
used for identifying suspects by handwriting.

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Michael A. Marsh
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