Apple Patent Describes iTunes Reselling and Loaning System

An anonymous reader writes "An Apple patent granted on 7 March details a system allowing customers to resell iTunes and iBooks content to other users at a reduced price, or to loan the content temporarily for free. Such a system could pave the way for second hand content being made available on iTunes for a discounted price." (Note: Beware the auto-playing video ad, with sound.)

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Re:finally, some good sense

[gurps_npc]

Yes the approach makes a lot of sense.

Which is why other people have been doing it for years.

Figuring out a different way to do something that Barnes and Nobles (lending econtent for a short time) or everyone else in the entire world already does (right of resale), is not something worth patenting.

It isn't even worth praise.

It's worth a "Finally you idiots figured out what we've been saying!"