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Amazon Patents 'Maintaining Scarcity' of Goods

Posted by Unknown on from the moldy-bits dept.

theodp writes "Back in Biblical times, creating abundance was considered innovative. That was then. Last Tuesday, GeekWire reports, the USPTO awarded Amazon.com a broad patent on reselling and lending 'used' digital goods for an invention that Amazon boasts can be used to 'maintain scarcity' of digital objects, including audio files, eBooks, movies, apps, and pretty much anything else."

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  1. If you don't like how digital goods are handled... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... don't buy them. There are still enough non-digital alternatives to maintain a market. Yeah it takes up a little more space to have a physical object but you can give, sell or lend the thing to others when you're done with it.