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Buying Used CDs Requires a Fingerprint?!

The Recording Industry has gone way overboard in somehow getting Florida and Utah (and possibly Rhode Island and Wisconsin) to pass a laws that say:

  • selling used CDs requires putting up a $10K bond with the state
  • buying them requires a fingerprint (!) and a state-issued ID

These are probably much tougher requirements than buying a gun in these states. Does this seem absurd to anyone? What about used book sales? Are used CD sales really that much of a market killer? Why is the recording industry trying to shoot itself in the foot? What a bunch of morons - including the legislators who bought in to this ill-conceived joke.

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