A corporate stranglehold and manipulation of access to information also kills innovation.

Innovation isn’t what they care about.
Isn’t it hollywood who keeps pumping out remakes, reboots, sequels and prequels?
They want control.

Corporations hate innovation unless they can own it and control it. And if it increases the profit to do so,
suppress it.

We all remember the Detroit versus the Tucker right?

“Intellectual property” is a legal fiction. Having more rules to govern how we have to treat non-property as property is just going to further confuse the issue.

Eliminate IP laws and you don’t need to have a conversation about reselling licenses of IP. Jesus, so fucking stupid. IDWTLOTPA

Ridiculous business model…

And seriously, how much could one really get for an old MP3? Even old CDs don’t fetch much.

Allowing resale with certificates wouldn’t make anything easier for the pirates, but would make things easier for those who want to buy and sell legally.

Electronic certificates even make sense without resale being allowed. It
would allow owners to document their legitimate ownership, and make the
absence of a certificate relevant as substantiation of accusations of illegitimate possession (evidence of copyright infringement).

Of course the entertainment industry wants to ban resale. The furnuture industry would like to ban resale. The car industry. Appliance manufacturers. Shipyards. Apart from producers of quickly perishable goods, I really can’t think of any industry that wouldn’t love this.

When will these guys learn the difference between “making a ton of money with minimal effort” and “creativity, innovation, and consumer choices”? While I do admit that their many attempts to screw the consumers do demonstrate some creativity and innovation, it’s really not the kind of creativity anyone, other than the crooks themselves, would want to preserve, and it certainly doesn’t result in more consumer choices.

This is why money shouldn’t be allowed to write law.