Re:How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling ju...
by jivatmanx on Monday October 29, 2012 @10:19AM
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As far as I can tell, this does appear limited to international trade for business purposes. It's a new, very specific kind of import ban. Protectionism of a sort, but not really that scary.
Problem is, this new ban doesn't actually appear in the copyright act at all.
No, it's not terribly scary and Ebay isn't going to be shut down. But that doesn't mean that the courts should have a license to create a new law that simply and clearly didn't exist before.
And your conjecture that this prevents arbitrage is FUD, as there are numerous ways to version differentiate (simply change order of questions, localizations, etc) that do not require giving the government a gigantic new policing power.
Problem is, this new ban doesn't actually appear in the copyright act at all.
No, it's not terribly scary and Ebay isn't going to be shut down. But that doesn't mean that the courts should have a license to create a new law that simply and clearly didn't exist before.
And your conjecture that this prevents arbitrage is FUD, as there are numerous ways to version differentiate (simply change order of questions, localizations, etc) that do not require giving the government a gigantic new policing power.