Local Music Store Supports Piracy
In: Random
21 Apr 2007
I had to laugh when I came across this. Sorry about the quality of the photo, it was taken with my cell phone.
Per our usual routine, we headed out to Hastings to pick up a few movies and when I walked in I saw this cut out standing in front of me. I had to take a double-take because I couldn’t believe anyone’s corporate legal department would sign off on such a poster.
In case you don’t click and enlarge the photo, the poster has a young woman holding some CDs with headphones on. The line at the top says, “Already Burned it?”
The ad is for selling back your used CDs. Are we to take this at face value? Does Hastings support you buying a CD, burning a copy, and selling the CD back? Wow, I am pretty sure that isn’t legal.
Thoughts??
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6 Responses to Local Music Store Supports Piracy
S Man
July 17th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Sorry, but copying music for your personal use is not piracy. Remember those funny looking things called cassettes.
RE
July 17th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Copying music for your personal use is not piracy. Copying it and then selling the original back is, unless you destroy the backups you made.
Anon
July 18th, 2007 at 7:18 am
Sorry, but it actually is. Once you relinquish (i.e. “sell back”) the original disc, you don’t have the right to retain your copies. I’m not saying I agree or support one way or the other, but this is illegal or at least obtusely suggesting customers partake in illegal activity.
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July 18th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
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emily
June 14th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Nope. You don’t get the full, original price of the CD refunded – it works like a pawn shop, where you get at most three or four bucks (if you’re lucky and the CD is very recent- I used to work at Hastings and I’ve bought back CDs from people for a cent. To be fair, it was Ace of Base). If pawn shops buying CDs and DVDs isn’t illegal, then neither is what Hastings is doing.
Jason Burns
June 14th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
@emily: I am not saying that buying back CDs is illegal, what I am saying is Hasting is actively promoting piracy. The concept of buy, burn and return to the store to get your money (or as much as you can get) back is wrong and you would have’t to really try to justify it. Sure you are allowed to make backup copies, but fair use intends you to keep the original you are backing up.