Backup Music Collection FOR SALE 302 DVD+RWs 220,000+ songs

[thecongressman]

Hi guys! I've decided to put up my backup music collection, which is on 302 DVD+RW's. The discs alone cost me over $400. They contain 1272.5 GB which is 220,871 mp3s which is over 15,000 albums. It covers 251 genres, 93 years of music, and over 4000 different artists. I'm a serious music collector and used to back up my collection every three months on these discs, which would take about a week to do the whole collection. I'm getting rid of them because the price of hard drives has come down, which is much easier for backing up. They contain every genre imaginable, and the music is of high quality bitrate (average is around 256) and the music is current up until January 8th, when I did my last backup. I can send you a track list, but it's a huge file--be warned. 99% of the collection are complete albums, as I rarely purchase standalone singles--I always wait until the album comes out. They are all properly tagged with album artwork, are incredibly organized (I'm super anal about my music organization) and each artist is multiple tagged with a primary genre and then sub-genres (based on wikipedia.)

First person with a love of music and shows me 400 bucks gets this labor of love. It's for sale on ebay at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :MESELX:IT

[Eyal]

Are you sure you have the right to sell this music?
You can certainly sell original CDs you have purchased, or music you made yourself,
but unless the music is very very old, I doubt you have the right to publicly do it.

When does a copyright on a song expire? http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_does_a_c ... ong_expire

[Lowlander]

Well, RIAA would very much like that reselling original CD's would be illegal: http://boingboing.net/2008/10/17/sellin ... ds-is.html and of course they believe backing up is illegal too: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/02/6190.ars

[thecongressman]

Well, then, if you're in the states or Canada--don't buy them! As far as I know, I'm not doing anything illegal . Honestly, I just don't want to see this collection go into the trash bin.

[Eyal]

You don't need to trash it. You do have this collection on your hard drives anyway.
Those are DVD+RW's, right? You can just format them and sell them at a bargain price...
... or just keep them as a backup in a safety location, in case of disaster.