Blog: The Hippodrome

A federal court judge ruled on Friday that selling promotional CDs, even when they're marked "not for resale" by the label, is legal. The judge rightly affirmed the fact that a company can't throw a restriction on a product to prevent the first-sale doctrine; that is, that once one assumes ownership of a product, that person may do with it what they please. Obviously a big victory for the consumer, it's hard to ignore what this means for the future of the CD. Selling CDs has already become a joke… last year, Wired pointed out that [...]