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Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software
dreemteem writes "A judge Tuesday heard arguments in a dispute over software sales that could potentially have repercussions on the secondhand sale of virtually any copyrighted material. The suit was filed by Timothy Vernor, a seller on eBay, after Autodesk, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, asked eBay to remove some of its software products that Vernor had listed for sale there, and later to ban him from the site. Vernor had not illegally copied the software but was selling legitimate CDs of the products secondhand. For that reason, he argued, he was not infringing Autodesk's copyright. Autodesk countered that because it licenses the software, rather than selling it outright, a licensee does not have the right to resell its products."
Dramaqueen dramabait blah blah. Call me crazy, but I'm sick of copyright. There's a difference between stealing a TV, and making a copy. It would be like taking a picture of a TV, and being sued for stealing the TV. You paid lots of cash to make your product? Well too damn bad -- a lot of Mathematicians worked hard to find mathematical relations, and I don't see you coughing up cash for them. Hurting innovation? Not today -- we don't need Brittany Spears, we don't need the Matrix. There is a wealth of industry waiting to be born from free distribution, but today it remains hindered in favor of a different industry. Economic growth can come from many places, but garbage crap like this isn't one of them.
Now patents...? There are no laws against building a machine that is patented, just how you make profit off of it. A lot of people say we need "copyright reform." Well, I say what we would have after "reform" would not be copyright at all. Copyright needs to be abolished, and an entirely new system needs to be erected. Laws need to adapt to the age of the Internet.
"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
Well because games are different, they are not like movies or books. I mean how many people read a book just once and then lend it to a friend or resell it. I mean have you ever heard of a used book store?
The publisher of the game only makes money on the people that buy it the first time. It is just unfair to steal their work buying a copy somebody else has already played.
So how many people will flame me without getting that I am kidding or even bothering to read this line?
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I can usually buy a used copy of a console game for a fraction of the new price
9/10ths is the fraction I usually see.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
That's because you are a small-minded ignorant troll prick.
>>>And people complain about socialism limiting freedoms...
Yes because a corporation is still just a corporation. They have a lot of power to make your life unhappy, but they still don't have the power to suck $$$ from your wallet, or jail you, or draft you to die in Arghanistan. Only government can do that, and therefore government is the greater evil.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
i agree - would you like to buy my DISK? it's silver and has the words "district 9 screener" sharpied on it.
but this is legal because, who cares about what's on the disk, right?
The other day, you replied to a long thread where some guy posted something that looked *remotely* racist. You challenged the validity of his post by asking how something with a *possible* racist reference could be insightful. You are so incredibly caught up in looking like a douchebag politically-correct conformist that you need to be backstabbed and raped by some crackhead--let's make him white--on the streets.