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read or yourselves:http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_ ... d43959ac24

The music industry is a bunch of dollar hungry criminals.
That's the reason I didn't buy one single new retail cd for about 10 years now.
They won't get my money ever again...

Sad. Pawn Shops are very popular in Florida. It is not uncommon to have two or more just on one block. You have 24 hour pawn shops and even drive-thru pawn shops. Where I lived in Florida, we had several legendary music stores that were entirely dedicated to used tapes, LPs and CDs. The assortment and selection was awesome.

What is sad, is much of the music you might want, there is no other way to get it than to buy a used CD or used tape. Like books, music goes out of print so fast for non-mainstream artists that you just cannot find some of the stuff you want unless you resort to buying used copies.

This is crap...
When I was in Grad School I worked in a pawn shop. Everything had to be documented. if you sold something you still needed ID. Nothing new there.

But thumbprints and NO CASH???? Crap!!! What will eBay do??? Can we have a garage sale without a police officer to check IDs of people wanting to BUY things!!!

America the next NAZI state...

Its doesn't seem to be aimed specifically at pawn shops, but most anyone that is in business to re-sell previously owned items. It doesn't prohibit an individual from selling their stuff directly to another individual, it only affects businesses that do re-sell. So...for example... if I wanted to sell some CD's that I had to Nik there is nothing that keeps me from doing that on a personal one-to-one basis......but!...if I am a business that re-sells previously owned cd's then the law applies.

Government has got to put a few controls on the music industry, they are going way overboard with this crap. Strangely, they are the only ones that seem to know at any time how much pirating costs them, and none of their 'facts and figures' have ever been able to be verified independantly, in fact, the reason you don't see much law enforcement interaction regarding piracy for this category is because the law enforcement community just doesn't see the proof but only hears the music industries "I think this is happening" theories . Their 'facts and figures' change depending on which 'industry authority' you ask. They seek to completly control the manufacturing of these items by introducing 'pseudo law' through broad and sweeping, undefined, interpetations of their personal views of how things should be. They are simply trying to create a 'psuedo legal' environment they will eventuallly seek to police all on their own so they can have complete control, unfortunately they have managed to convince some weak minded people in government thru their constant harassing lobby efforts. They are trying to go the same way the oil industry is now, have any controls removed so they can charge what ever they want when they want. I'm sure piracy exists, and I know for a fact it does damage to the various industries, and I don't agree with it, but the music industry is going about it all wrong as what they seek is a fundamental change to, and to abridge, the publics constitutional rights (in the USA at least). Its all about greed and nothing else.

@Rook Zimbabwe - don't worry about ebay, auctions aren't covered by the law. And...garage sales are personal one-to-one sales (at least in most states).