Copyright Supreme Court Case
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Re: Copyright Supreme Court Case
by eric » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:08 pm
Well that's the point. You can do that easily. Buy a book in Sri Lanka, bring it to the US, sell it to a friend when you're done with it.
Fundamentally this is no different. Hence the issue.
Fundamentally this is no different. Hence the issue.
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Re: Copyright Supreme Court Case
by uebermann » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:11 pm
Its just like EA getting mad at places like Gamestop for making money by selling used games. Though they didn't claim copyright infringement, if you want to play a used EA game online now, you have to pay EA $20 on top of whatever you paid for the game to play it online. Basically they found a way to profit from used game sales.
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Re: Copyright Supreme Court Case
by eric » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:27 pm
Yeah the issue here now is that companies are essentially able to limit resale of products, whether digital or hard copy, by claiming it violates copyright.
It's really no different than Apple suing you for reselling your iPhone, or if you purchased a DVD and sold it to somebody at a garage sale, you're denying that company entitlement to future profit (which of course doesn't exist)
It's really no different than Apple suing you for reselling your iPhone, or if you purchased a DVD and sold it to somebody at a garage sale, you're denying that company entitlement to future profit (which of course doesn't exist)
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Re: Copyright Supreme Court Case
by John Galt » Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:06 pm
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