Dear Kit,
 Would you be kind enough to cite the law which limits
 or prohibits anyone from selling or otherwise disposing
 of Disney videotapes which they've legally purchased?
 Can you explain how this law, if it exists, allows us
 to give Disney products as gifts, but prohibits us from
 selling them at garage sales or collector's conventions?
 KG> When a student sells her used textbooks back to the school
 KG> bookstore or to another student, is she breaking the law?
 KB> School libraries are the authorized distributors of textbooks
 KB> and thus have the right to sell them, take them back, resell
 KB> them and the like.
 Mr. Ballantyne, you continue to confuse the issues.
 Bookstores and libraries are two different things.
 Purchasing USED MATERIALS and refunding purchases
 or "taking them back" are also two different things.
 For the sake of the argument, let's agree that our
 hypothetical bookstore is "authorized" to purchase
 and re-sell used merchandise.  Does that mean that
 the individual who sells the used merchandise to the
 store is also "_authorized_" to do so?
 If so, where is it written that an individual may
 sell used goods only to an "authorized" bookstore,
 but NOT to others through collector's conventions,
 classified ads, garage sales, pages on the web, etc.?
 I pointed out to you that daily newspapers contain ads
 for people who are selling used Disney products and that
 we buy those newspapers.  I asked if we are supporting
 a nation of law-breakers.  Are we?  Should newspapers
 put an end to this now?  Should we seek, at once, to stop
 the newspapers from publishing what you clearly believe
 is solicitation to violate the law?
 In a previous message to you, I pointed out the following:
 KG> In the CD-ROM Fidonet echo you are presently attempting to buy a CD
 KG> from a person who makes his living buying and reselling used CD-ROMS.
 KG> Is he breaking the law by doing this, Kit?
 You responded by saying:
 KB> I have no idea what this has to do with Disney since
 KB> I have not attempted to buy any Disney CD-ROMS,
 In your argument concerning those you perceive as hoarders,
 price-gougers and pirates, you referred to copyright laws.
 You've engendered emotional support, but very little that
 you've offered about copyrights supports your contentions.
 KB> ...let me correct your message.  I have not knowingly
 KB> purchased used software in that echo.
 I _never_ stated that you purchased used software.  The person
 with whom you are doing business clearly states that he sells
 new and USED merchandise, right here on Fidonet.
 Is he breaking the law?  Yes or no?  If he is breaking the law,
 then don't you think we should put an end to that too?
 Best Wishes,
 Gibber
 Gipper
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