And for a second there, I was expecting your comment to be something about bananaphones.

I keep all the books I really want to keep separate from the ones I would give away for free, or toss in the recycle bin (Portland Recycles!(tm)) if I cannot find a new owner.

For the record, there really is no further organisation for my own library.

Yes, you should, but don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen. The *AA have yet to find a drm solution that actually does what they want it to do, but you want them to try to add in functionality to relicense the file for another device to support your sale of the product? You do understand, I'm sure that they would prefer that if somebody were to buy that MP3 from you, they would want that person to buy it from THEM instead. Suppose you want to give that MP3 to somebody else? Well, they make no money for either hypothetical situation.

This is part of the reason I ONLY buy physical media -- I can sell it, loan it, or transcode it to whatever format I wish for whatever portable device I happen to be using at the time. And they can't do jack shit to stop me. Well, there is the DMCA, but as long as I'm not sharing the bits with anybody, how are they going to know that I've broken the DRM involved?

This creates for me a conundrum which I have not yet been able to solve, so I usually buy half of my physical media new, and the other half used. Roughly a function of how much I like the particular artist/group.

The disadvantage that I can see to buying new music is that it gives these clowns more money to ramrod DRM down our throats. The advantage is that they DO continue to produce stuff, though. Been to a good used music store lately? I find way more stuff in those than I do virtually anywhere else -- I'd never shop at a store that specialises only in selling new music, of course -- Suncoast sells pretty much movies and music only. The price of shopping at Suncoast is *extremely* high. The selection (from the stores I've been in) is very limited. I cringe to think how bad an actual *music store* might be.

This is why I prefer to buy music and movies used, though. It does not give the studio anything for their asshattery, and is usually so cheap that even if 1/3 or so discs that I buy is unusable, I'm at least breaking even, financially. I can easily purchase another used copy to replace it.

If sex was illegal? I fail to see how that would affect most of us. You must be new here.