Heh… And of course, the Hollywood honchos freak when their stuff turns up on the web…
Working in a used bookstore, I’ve been culling a fair number of ARCs lately. (That’s Advance Review Copies, for non-booknerds.) Not just passed around, but resold. :-( (I need to talk to the boss about those….)
The way the corporate film, book, and music industries are run is so ridiculous it will be hard to feel sorry for anyone other than the artists and retail clerks when they all implode.
While copying DVDs violates copyright law, reselling DVDs and books does not. It *may* violate a contractual agreement between the publisher and the reviewer, but if they send you something unsolicited in the mail, then you have a perfect right to do whatever you like with it just as if you’d bought it years later in the store. Look up the [First Sale Doctrine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine). (I’m speaking only of the United States here.)
Heh… And of course, the Hollywood honchos freak when their stuff turns up on the web…
Working in a used bookstore, I’ve been culling a fair number of ARCs lately. (That’s Advance Review Copies, for non-booknerds.) Not just passed around, but resold. :-( (I need to talk to the boss about those….)
The way the corporate film, book, and music industries are run is so ridiculous it will be hard to feel sorry for anyone other than the artists and retail clerks when they all implode.
While copying DVDs violates copyright law, reselling DVDs and books does not. It *may* violate a contractual agreement between the publisher and the reviewer, but if they send you something unsolicited in the mail, then you have a perfect right to do whatever you like with it just as if you’d bought it years later in the store. Look up the [First Sale Doctrine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine). (I’m speaking only of the United States here.)
Keef, this was very entertaining. Keep it up, big guy.