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iTunes eBay auction ‘treads murky legal ground’

In a move that could test the legalities of Internet music resale rights, George Hotelling on Tuesday night put a digital song he purchased on Apple’s iTunes Music Store up for auction on eBay. “Hotelling said he isn’t all that concerned about getting his money back for the song, ‘Double Dutch Bus,’ which cost him 99 cents,” reports CNET News.com. “Instead, he said he’s using the attempted sale to probe some thorny consumer issues stemming from commercial online music services, in particular, technology known as digital rights management that’s used to prevent unauthorized copying.”

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