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  1. Aaron Silverman

    Weinstein Company signs exclusive rental deal with Blockbuster. BAD IDEA.

    I got an email from Blockbuster about that new swap-'em-in-store feature sometime in the past week or two.
  2. Aaron Silverman

    Weinstein Company signs exclusive rental deal with Blockbuster. BAD IDEA.

    I had found this: But apparently that only applies to sound recordings and computer software, not video. (But the digital nature of CDs and software media were the impetus for that -- presumably, the same arguments could be applied to DVDs.)
  3. Aaron Silverman

    Weinstein Company signs exclusive rental deal with Blockbuster. BAD IDEA.

    First Sale Doctrine doesn't allow you to rent things out; it means that you can sell them outright. There's a big difference. Those sell-through copies will not be legally rentable.
  4. Aaron Silverman

    Weinstein Company signs exclusive rental deal with Blockbuster. BAD IDEA.

    Oh yeah, Blockbuster is ALL ABOUT being fair to independent video stores. :D
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