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Testing The Right To Resell Downloaded Music
David Gerard writes "A man has bought a song from Apple iTunes and has put it up for sale on eBay. "I only spent $0.99 on it but I bought the song just as legally as I would a CD, so I should be able to sell it used just as legally, right?" Does the Right of First Sale still exist?" The seller says he's seeking attention, but not to himself. Rather, he calls this "an experiment in property rights in the digital age," and promises not to keep a copy once the sale is done.
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I can't believe I read this. I could not stop, but I am sick now. Have to go get koolaid.
The one where the Declaration of Independence can still be read because it was written on hemp, or the one which outlawed hemp in 1937 because of lobbing efforts by Dupont and others that associated it with marijuana, when really they wanted to remove competition to their synthetic fibers? It is currently illegal to grow hemp because it can't be easily distinguished from marijuana during raids. William Randolph Hearst, newspaper owner and friend of the DuPonts, slanted the news in his papers (yellow journalsim) To quote Jack Herer, "in the 1920s and 1930s, Hearst's newspaper chain led to the deliberate..yellow journalism campaign to have marijuana outlawed. From 1916 to 1937, as an example, the story of a car accident in which a marijuana cigarette was found would dominate the headlines for weeks, while alcohol related car accidents (which outnumber hemp-related accidents by 1,000 to 1) made only back pages." (Source) {The "Drug War" part. This page correlates information I've found from other sources.}
Or more modern with the bills to fight P2P networks, if you want a digital equivalent. However, that's a recent example and the hemp one shows that this isn't a new phenomenon.
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Actually, in most of the US, there are no restrictions on the resale of used firearms. The first sale of a new gun requires the completion of a federal form which is retained by the dealer and a background check. Afterwards, selling a gun is no different than selling a book. Some states restrict who is allowed to purchase and own guns (prohibited possessors) and the seller is supposed to do a reasonable job of validating the purchaser. He might even be allowed to take advantage of his county's sheriff department to do a background check. But, by and large, there are no prohibitions on the resale of firearms.