In the ideal capitalist's world second hand sales would be banned completely, forcing people to always buy new. It is pretty hard to attack the first-sale copy

In the ideal capitalist's world second hand sales would be banned completely, forcing people to always buy new. It is pretty hard to attack the first-sale copyright doctrine head on, but you can go after the edge cases. Slowly but surely you eat away at the fair use concepts until there is nothing left. We are seeing a massive shift in the concept of copyright and ownership. The next twenty to fifty years are going to be very interesting as more and more content becomes digitized. Can I resell that e-book that I have already read and has been sitting on my virtual shelf for over a year? Um, no. Dream on... The actual first-sale doctrine is already null and void when it comes to digital content. The media companies must be pissing themselves laughing, whilst still charging the same price as they used to do for physical copies, the customer is prevented from reselling that digital item.