Comments on: Court slams shut music locker ReDigi, says “first sale” doesn’t apply http://paidcontent.org/2013/04/01/court-slams-shut-music-locker-redigi-says-first-sale-doesnt-apply/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: csaz http://paidcontent.org/2013/04/01/court-slams-shut-music-locker-redigi-says-first-sale-doesnt-apply/#comment-203565 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:10:47 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=226858#comment-203565 Except there really is no way to prove the economics. Just as you can’t have a foolproof way of determining how many copies are out there, or if the original user kept a copy on a removable drive, thus avoiding the sweep while keeping a copy for themselves, you also can’t prove how many, if any, of the people would buy that digital copy at full price.

Presumably, they aren’t willing to buy it a full price or they would do so.

I get tired of these companies claiming billions of dollars in losses when they don’t give any credence to the fact that many, or most, of those who pirate something would have purchased it in the first place. I’m not condoning piracy, but I’m also not condoning acting as if every copy made is a lost sale. In fact, there have been studies that have shown that people how pirate music actually purchase more music than most of those who don’t.

]]> By: bob http://paidcontent.org/2013/04/01/court-slams-shut-music-locker-redigi-says-first-sale-doesnt-apply/#comment-203329 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:11:03 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=226858#comment-203329 While I’m not sure about the legal details, I think that the court made the right decision. The marketplace can’t function effectively when every copy can be resold an infinite number of times. Even if all of the sellers are honest and actually delete their copies– HAHA Good one– it could mean that each copy is used hundreds of times. That means the original has got to cost hundreds of times more.

There’s no way around the economics.

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