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<blockquote data-quote="Super Pony" data-source="post: 5803176" data-attributes="member: 6669292"><p>I think part of the issue of digital rights management is trying to tag anyone with purchases they've made. The easier it is to transfer those digital goods, the easier it is to hack. </p><p> </p><p>And transfering AutoCAD, Copy Machine or Adobe In-Design licenses is easier because...they have rediculous encryption and charge an absolute arm and a leg for their products. My copy of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 was...drum roll...$7200 and then I pay $1000/year to allow me to use the most current versioning from here on in. Then I can transfer a license from one machine to another, but it removes it from the previous one. Same thing for copy machines or other similar transferable products. You can export it, but you then lose the rights to use it. </p><p> </p><p>Allowing people to transfer things like their iTunes to another user would be easy, but they'd lock you out from that content. I mean technically you're not supposed to copy a CD and then sell it...and we ALL have...as every mix tape/CD of mine can attest to. The digital transfer of goods will increasingly crack down on people sharing products with one another.</p><p> </p><p>I am whole-heartedly in favor of being able to sell digital materials 2nd hand (iTunes, video games, apps, digital books, etc). But I don't think we'll ever get our cake and eat it too in the sense of selling digital content AND being able to continue to use said content. If I could have retained a ghost copy of some of the comic books I sold in college...I'd be a happy old man right now. But I sold them to someone, and only have the fond yet faded memories of owning them now. It'd be pretty silly for me to contact Image and Marvel and tell them they were jerks for not replacing my copies for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Super Pony, post: 5803176, member: 6669292"] I think part of the issue of digital rights management is trying to tag anyone with purchases they've made. The easier it is to transfer those digital goods, the easier it is to hack. And transfering AutoCAD, Copy Machine or Adobe In-Design licenses is easier because...they have rediculous encryption and charge an absolute arm and a leg for their products. My copy of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 was...drum roll...$7200 and then I pay $1000/year to allow me to use the most current versioning from here on in. Then I can transfer a license from one machine to another, but it removes it from the previous one. Same thing for copy machines or other similar transferable products. You can export it, but you then lose the rights to use it. Allowing people to transfer things like their iTunes to another user would be easy, but they'd lock you out from that content. I mean technically you're not supposed to copy a CD and then sell it...and we ALL have...as every mix tape/CD of mine can attest to. The digital transfer of goods will increasingly crack down on people sharing products with one another. I am whole-heartedly in favor of being able to sell digital materials 2nd hand (iTunes, video games, apps, digital books, etc). But I don't think we'll ever get our cake and eat it too in the sense of selling digital content AND being able to continue to use said content. If I could have retained a ghost copy of some of the comic books I sold in college...I'd be a happy old man right now. But I sold them to someone, and only have the fond yet faded memories of owning them now. It'd be pretty silly for me to contact Image and Marvel and tell them they were jerks for not replacing my copies for me. [/QUOTE]
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