US court to rule on digital music resales

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

I suppose, in a communist society, all this squabbling over rights and ownership would cease. But while we're still lumbered with the current system and with intellectual property etc etc..what do you make of this case and others like it?

A US court is to consider a case that could determine whether digital media files can be resold.
One-year-old start-up ReDigi is battling music giant EMI over whether digital music can be retraded after it has been legally purchased.
ReDigi says that its software is designed to comply with existing United States copyright laws.
But EMI argues a legal principle which allows consumers to resell purchased material goods does not apply.
A judge at the district court in Manhattan, New York, will hear opening arguments in the case on Friday after EMI sued ReDigi for copyright infringement earlier this year.

(more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19842851)

[x-punk]

You can resell physical media such as dvds or books but now the question is being raised if you can resell downloaded material. I think realistically the court is going rule that you cant.

Im sure if you could in some way limit it to selling the download so that the buyer receives it and the seller no longer has it just like with physical media, that might be allowed. But to reproduce these downloads just takes a few clicks of a button on your computer so i dont see how this could be limited. Thus, i really see the court ruling in favour of EMI as it would otherwise open up the floodgates and seriously damage their profits and I cant really see a court ruling against these large corporations.