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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Renting
by Andrew G on Mon 8th Sep 2003 13:11 UTC

The DVD's people rent at BlockBuster have a different license to those which you buy at blockbuster. Block Buster pays significantly more for a DVD than the 20bucks you pay when you buy one. They get to rent it out time and time again which you could not do legally with the version you bought.

Most people only watch a movie once, but listen to CD's many times. Hence the reason why CD's are not profitable to rent.