Second hand digital content, 2013 BIG liberty challenge!
Cover via Amazon Two pieces of information: Apple and Amazon File Patents to Sell Used eBooks (Today it's just impossible). Regidi allows people to sell legally purchased digital music (and is sued by EMI...). Why the right to resell digital content is so important? Because if you can resell digital content, it means that you own it. You have more than a right to use it. If you can't resell digital content, it means that you don't know it. It's just a right to use it. With the digitization of content, big brands with big digital stores (Apple, Amazon, Google) and the guys content owned (Music majors, etc.) tried to establish new rules: - even if it cost nothing to be reproduced, digital content has the same price as tangible content . Status : it's not so true now. Legal digital music is a bit less expensive than CDs, eBooks are a bit less expensive than books (except in France) but there is still some efforts to do to lower a bit prices i...