Star First Sale vs. "Fair Play": The iTunes Music Store Gets Tested
Linked by Paul Cesarini on Mon 8th Sep 2003 03:02 UTC
Multimedia, AV Thanks to a provision in the 1976 Copyright Act, U.S. law allows the first purchaser of copyrighted material (a book, CD, etc) to subsequently re-sell that item without the copyright owner's consent. In this age of online distribution and the budding, halting attempts at legitimizing it, is the the right to re-sell going to be upheld?
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RE: Shareware
by SCREWtheCARTELS on Mon 8th Sep 2003 08:30 UTC

"1.) THe only form of shareware that works is crippled ware, Turn off a save option disable a key render feature , set a time limit. "

He is speaking of the idea of shareware applied to music files. But if you think about it, what happened to the artists who already allow shareware of their music, like Greatful Dead, Phish, Janis Ian, etc? They did not cripple the tapes, videos, or mpegs they have allowed to spread. Additionally, I do not recall where any of the people associated with these groups dropped dead from starvation, due to earning no money from freely spreading their art around.

So can someone please explain to me again how shareware of music doesn't work?