Can people legally sell their iPod's on ebay loaded w/ music?

aphex

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If they in fact deleted all the music off their pc? (and i suppose destroyed any and all cd's they ripped onto it)

Just curious because i've been noticing quite a few "loaded" iPods for sale on eBay....
 

MDE

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No, legally you'd have to include the original source for the music (CDs, cassette, whatever), but then again how could you fit the internet on an iPod?
 

EKKC

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i dont think its legal if you claim its loaded, but nobody can check. RIAA would be hard pressed to prosecute anyone doing this.

its like if you sell a DVD player or a DVD library-player and happen to left your bootleg DVD in there, would you be arrested? i think not, as long as I dont advertised the fact that I 'accidentally' left them in there
 

DaveSimmons

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It might be legal if they actually included the original CDs (and transferred their iTMS account if any purchased tracks).

But of course 99% of the tracks are P2P to begin with, or shared across multiple iPod sales.