>Let me explain: You can buy CDs used off eBay very cheap. Even new 

>releases way below retail price. So the person selling them had to 

>get them at below retail in order to make a profit. Now they are 

>getting their money back + profit. Do you think they are sending 

>little checks to the record companies and record producers? No. So 

>one CD can be bought and sold by lets say 10 people the artist gets 

>paid once when they should of gotten paid 10 times.

organism wrote:

You could personally fuel an army with the river of bullshit you spew with *such* regularity. And so, by your logic, *nothing* could ever be sold used without the buyer or seller sending a "rights" check off to the original producer? Books? Cars? Movies? Furniture? Houses? Anything? 

Dear organism

If I buy a car, a house, a piece of furniture and I sell it, then it is no longer around for me to use. If I buy music or movies and sell it. What's to stop me from having made a copy and enjoying the music for free for the rest of my life. Your an educated man I think you see what is wrong with that. That fact that music and movies can so easily be copied is the problem and that is what needs to be controlled some how. All these companies are racing to find an answer because they know the one who figures it out will make out like a bandit. In America if someone win's the Lotto, (you know millions of dollars) its common for someone to say "Boy I'd like a piece of that action" meaning they wish they were him. It's just a saying here I think you mis-understood. 

Instead of just bashing what other people say I would like to hear how you think the whole copy protection problem could be solved. Any ideas?