Best Option To Liquidate CD Collection

Drubin
You cannot legally nor ethically sell or even give away your CDs so long as you have ripped and still have the files. Do the right thing!

I know that's the law...can anybody explain how record shops and Amazon can buy and sell used CDs legally?
Thanks.

Serious question...what is the law concerning resale of used CDs by record shops and websites such as Agon and Amazon. Is it the honor system, such as it's assumed that the original owner has not kept a copy for himself.

Princeton Record Exchange; one of the top used record stores in the country.

http://www.prex.com

---no affiliation

You can't control seller from copying material one wants to sell(and still want to listen). One who just want to listen to music has a right to be happy with burned CD or recorded cassette for PERSONAL use. That is considred to be legal anywhere you go.

Now I'm remembering the litigation back in the 80's regarding home recording to cassette and the recording of video rentals. The court ruled that it was legal to keep a copy for your personal use.

In the case of VHS movie rentals, it was also legal to keep a copy for personal use. That's when the movie studios started to use "Copyguard" on VHS rentals. The most effective system distorted the vertical sync on the tape enabling it to play, but couldn't be recorded. Next, copyguard was applied to DVD rentals but was too expensive to apply to every DVD released.