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benn600:
CDs have a lot more dynamic range than cassettes!

So the only legitimate solution is for me to literally throw the media in the garbage.

1,350 * 0.035 pounds = 47 pounds of landfill waste.  CDs can't be recycle, can they?

I'm going through a similar problem with Adobe CS3.  I purchased this as a student (still am) and have now learned that there is no education upgrade price.  So I have to buy a new CS4 license if I want.  I emailed my dealer and said, purely as a hypothetical: if I absolutely have to have CS4, no questions asked, then I buy it.  Okay, so do I throw CS3 in the garbage?  Can I sell it?  He said it is unethical to sell due to educational pricing.

1. I don't question that line of thought.
2. What does the legal license allow, legally of course?
3. It is an old version!  I got thinking about it and decided that if it is an old version, it would be much less ethically charged, in my opinion.  It has a potential to allow someone to buy an old version and remove a sale from CS4...but that person probably wouldn't have bought CS4 anyway because they are looking for a good deal.

The moment a new version is released, all the old ones basically become trash.

IP is so complicated.

hit_ny:

--- Quote from: steveklein on September 18, 2009, 09:18:27 am ---i no longer support physical media. it can't die fast enough for me. the costs, both to the consumer and the environment are enormous. all of that packing material, then they get delivered on trucks, sit on shelves of stores, and so on and so forth. seems like a dead, broken system. and quite wasteful. i don't know exactly, but i'm guessing each CD that is sold has several dollars of overhead that could be eliminated by just going to an all digital format.

if you have some all-time favorites that you'd like to keep, then save the discs, frame them for your music theater, or do whatever you want. but for the vast majority of them, just scrap them. physical media is dead.

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You willingly relinquish your right to resell or right of first sale ?

What about those that are not so willing.

Thats only because i can't forsee how it would be possible to resell a digital download.

edbro:

--- Quote from: hit_ny on September 18, 2009, 10:55:19 am ---You willingly relinquish your right to resell or right of first sale ?

What about those that are not so willing.

Thats only because i can't forsee how it would be possible to resell a digital download.

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You can resell the media if you delete any copies of it. You can't rip the cd, keep the contents, then sell it to someone else. Not legally anyways.

Of course it is possible to resell a digital download. Not all downloads have drm. (Amazon) I don't know of a market for them but I would think it is legal.

Mind you, I'm not a lawyer. But, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once. (you non-Americans won't get that so don't try)

hit_ny:

--- Quote from: edbro on September 18, 2009, 11:02:56 am ---Of course it is possible to resell a digital download. Not all downloads have drm. (Amazon) I don't know of a market for them but I would think it is legal.

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Its not the question of legality that concerns me her but resale value. Maybe i should have rephrased what i meant earlier.

How do you prove the file is authentic in the first place ? If you can't then you have no sale.

This problem does not exist with atoms :)

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