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Market => Product offers => Topic started by: Thirdplace on February 28, 2013, 06:12 am

Title: Digital Goods - rights to them?
Post by: Thirdplace on February 28, 2013, 06:12 am
Is there something intrinsically wrong about selling digital goods?  Can 1 vendor Bogart the rights to a specific item?  I can understand in the case of Dr.Deepwood's synths, that it would be wrong to resell them since HE created the guides, but if it's a work that's being pirated anyways, is it acceptable for a vendor to list an item someone else is listing?
Title: Re: Digital Goods - rights to them?
Post by: SelfSovereignty on February 28, 2013, 06:24 am
I'm not sure what makes you ask this.  Basically the philosophy Silk Road follows is pretty simple: people have a right to choose what they put in their bodies.  Selling them the things they desire to ingest is not hurting them.  Stealing their ideas and selling them as your own would be hurting someone, so it's not acceptable to varying degrees.

Selling something that someone else is also selling is part of the market dynamic though.

Does that answer your question?
Title: Re: Digital Goods - rights to them?
Post by: Thirdplace on February 28, 2013, 06:35 am
Well, I completely understand what you're saying and I agree with it, otherwise I wouldn't be considering this course of action.  However, I want to know what my potential customers think as they will be the one's that give me feedback and therefore determine how much people would consider or contemplate doing business with me in the future. 

I would assume that if a person purchases my goods that another is selling that they wouldn't have a problem with it; however, people can be fickle and I wanted to get a good handle on the potential situation before I jumped in head first.

Also because there is a vendor named NickMode who is apparently catching some flack for reselling someone's goods.  I don't want to be caught in his situation so I figured I'd ask respectfully first.
Title: Re: Digital Goods - rights to them?
Post by: SelfSovereignty on February 28, 2013, 06:52 am
So basically, you have an unnamed digital good that you wish to sell and that you came by through non-SR means?  That about sum it up?

I say yes, sell it.  Undercut if you can.  That's how the market works, it's one of the things that makes SR so successful.  Do be sure to say at least a little something about how you obtained the goods, though, just for the people who will assume you're re-selling someone elses listing.  But in my eyes, it's the same thing as selling drugs that are higher quality or better price.  You know a guy better than somebody else.  The fact that it's the same drug doesn't enter into it.

So the fact that someone else is also selling the goods doesn't enter into it, if you see what I mean.
Title: Re: Digital Goods - rights to them?
Post by: Thirdplace on February 28, 2013, 09:10 pm
Thanks for the positive words and encouragement.  Before I implement this I'd still like some more people to give their view; either edifying or critiquing is fine.