From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 16:19:49 -0700 This article reports the appeals court decision in the ReDigi case. The business of ReDigi is to find a way to sell and transfer to another owner digital music files in a copyright-compliant way. The appeals court rules that they have not been successful and must desist: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-12/secondhand-digital-music-sales-rejected-by-u-s-appeals-court What strikes me about this is the emerging pattern whereby, in order to sustain the business models of the analog world, digital books, videos, and songs must be artificially constrained to have *less* functionality than their analog forebears in at least some ways, ways that are usually counterintuitive. Does the shift (over the duration of this lawsuit, as the article points out) away from downloading purchased music to streaming services and the relative lower price of digital over analog achieve a sufficient rebalancing of interests and advantages? Jim O'Donnell ASU