ReDigi Digital Music Resale

"Launched in October 2011, ReDigi bills itself as the first legal online marketplace for second-hand digital material.The company says thousands of people downloaded its software in the weeks after launch, but it says growth slowed after Capitol Records, a subset of EMI, sued in January.EMI argues that digital music is not the same as CDs or books, meaning that the "first sale doctrine" does not apply.It says that the only way to move music around involves making duplicates, and there is is no way to guarantee all the original owner's copies of the files have been deleted.The lawsuit will be closely watched by the wider media industry as it could set a precedent."

"Google has written a letter to the judge arguing that the company had a "specific and vital interest" in the outcome."I think it could absolutely transform the industry," Benjamin Shiller, a professor in economics at Brandeis University, told the BBC"

read http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19842851

lol what a fucking utterly stupid idea

Dumbest thing I've ever heard of.

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ReDigi asks users to download proprietary software, which verifies if a file was bought legally. If the song checks out, it is then erased from the seller's hard drive and uploaded to ReDigi's computer servers.

 

ReDigi's software is designed to prevent sellers from reinstalling a sold song to their computer, and offers users the chance to check their libraries for illegal music.

Fuck that!

and why buy digital files used anyway? IMO the glory of buying digital is that you can directly support the artist. I want a world without middle-men, not more of them.

count me in!!!! i hate breaking the rules!!! i am a good lad!!!

strange concept - it really is quite abstract. i am curious to see if this might gain popularity, if it does indeed move past its legal ambiguity. who's to say that the artist could not sell his or her own digital wears 'second hand'?

  On 10/7/2012 at 3:49 AM, Redruth said:

who's to say that the artist could not sell his or her own digital wears 'second hand'?

How? By buying and selling multiple copies of their own music?

Ever heard of bandcamp?

  On 10/6/2012 at 12:17 AM, Redruth said:

 

 

"Launched in October 2011, ReDigi bills itself as the first legal online marketplace for second-hand digital material."

They're clearly full of shit, unless they never knew of all those .ru sites that "sold" mp3s