Music piracy on iPods

The RIAA has opened a new front in its war on music piracy, and it's not about sharing tunes online. "Wipe your iPod before selling it," The Register suggests. The Recording Industry Association of America "last week told sellers in the US that doing so is a clear violation of copyright law [at least in the US and Europe] and warned them that it's sniffing out for infringers." For example, if your child got a new iPod over the holidays and wants to unload his old one on eBay, make sure he takes all the music off it. "Handing over music on a music player is no different from duplicating a CD and selling the copy," The Register adds. Anybody *advertising* used iPods for the music on them must definitely be a sitting duck for litigation.