“A customer of Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store said he has successfully resold a he song purchased through the service, ending a weeklong exercise he hoped would highlight the legal and technical nuances of emerging digital music services,” Evan Hansen reports for CNET News.com. “George Hotelling, a Web developer in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Tuesday reported the details of the transfer on his Web log.”
“In an interview Wednesday, Hotelling said he was able to give the song to a friend, Keith Elder, a Web developer in Ypsilanti, Mich., whom he met through an Internet discussion group. In order to close the deal, Hotelling said he had to transfer control of his entire iTunes Music Store account to Elder. He said he intends to demand 50 cents from Elder for the account, which included one song, the Devin Vasquez remake of Frankie Smith’s song “Double Dutch Bus,” which he’d originally purchased for 99 cents,’ Hansen reports.
“‘For the average user, I’d definitely say this was extremely difficult,’ he said. ‘I guess you could say we’re both extreme geeks.’ An Apple representative said the company would meet Wednesday to discuss its iTunes Music Store resale policy and that she expected to make a statement later in the day,” Hansen reports.
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it is kind of funny isn’t it ? …
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i just wonder how is he going to buy more songs from iTMS in case he wants to …
well I hope Apple implements some kind of mechanism for transfering rights for songs between users … so you can give a song to somebody as a present.
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not that it matters here in Slovakia where we don’t have iTMS yet .. and nobody would bother with a transaction like this .. since a CD-R cost here only 30 cent .. 50 cent on average
i guess you can not compare it since the situation is so different [private people don’t bother to buy their software either … only companies have to]
Well, he got his 15 minutes or so of fame.
What a waste. This is one of the most idiotic things I’ve read in a long time (excluding the transcripts from White House press briefings, of course).
I agree with Atomicb – what a stupid story, LEAVE my headlines already!
I’m not sure it was “idiotic,” considering the constant debate, among users and the recording industry, about the consequences of various licensing schemes. These files have become a commodity, and it’s the nature of trade to figure out how to move a commodity.
So now we know. Let’s not be mean to the guy.
Obviously an attempt for George Hotelling and his friend to get into the headlines.
Especially since it would have been MUCH easier and faster to just rip him a CD and send him the file that way. No need to transfer rights from one account to another.
blah blah blah……..
absolutely.
dumb f . . . ‘s with way too much time on their hands.
absolutely.
dumb f . . . ‘s with way too much time on their hands.
absolutely.
dumb f . . . ‘s with way too much time on their hands.
I don’t believe what this gentleman did was too idiotic. What he did will probably set up a precedent for the future when it comes to digital rights. Certainly, some of us will eventually get tired of certain albums or songs we bought over the internet… perhaps this will open the door to new services to sell old songs and albums (that, again, were bought digitally via the internet) that we no longer want or need.
Also, it is much more complicated that just ripping him the song from the CD (especially since this album was not released on CD… I think, I could be wrong). The legal rights to the song downloaded from the iTMS would still be in the original owner’s (in this case, George Hotelling) hands. He would still own it legally. The point was to actually transfer the legal rights of ownership to the buyer (in this case, Keith Elder). And, even if impractical, it was accomplished.
In my personal opinion, I feel his point was valid.
I hope you understand my argument for him. If you do not, that is fine. After all, we are all entitled to our own opinions. If I stated any incorrect information, I apologize.
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