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Originally posted by Enigmatism415
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It is common practice and courtesy to not keep backups of material you sell.
-You've sold the disc. You've sold the content.
-If you have a backup, you delete it. No "secret" copies.
-You NEVER keep a backup of something you've sold, but if the original medium is showing signs of bitrot or other forms for damage or injury, it's common practice to give the new owner a secondary copy mastered from your own backup before you delete it.
-Multiple copies should only exist if there actually are multiple "original" CD-Rs/DVD-Rs from different sources (Like Disc #1 being recovered from Magazine A and Disc #2 being recovered from Magazine B). No burning multiple copies yourself and selling them.
-Some releases have of course involved people helping recover the expenses of acquiring something as a means for getting the owner to share something he has (or compensate them for taking the risk of sharing something).
It is also common practice to not sell digital copies of something also.
-This is straight out piracy and thievery.
-When you sell the "original", regardless of storage medium, you're selling a collectible. A piece of history.
-In collector's circles, the original medium is just as important as (if not even more important than) the content on it.
-This also technically affects the value of the physical object itself (for most collectors, anyway) and any lacking openness of such incidents also hurts trust between people and imagine having shelled out $4000 for the mantel piece of your collection, just to notice that the previous owner also cashed in on selling digital copies to a bunch of people for a dime a dozen.
If you sit on a digital backup of something you do not own the original medium for, there are things you do and things you don't. Mostly things you don't.
-You don't go spreading that shit around. You don't own it and you don't know who and how you're harming people if you do so.
-Copying the data is still a crime and infrigmentation of copyright law. Leaks are also such infrigments.
-People with legit media (or who've ever been in posession of it) are the ones put in the spotlight and "harm's way" the moment a leak occurs. Regardless of who tries to claim the fame or blame.
-A physical medium is less problematic, as the circumstances of how private individuals came to acquire these are more tricky and in most cases, despite the discs technically being copyrighted material and even elligable for claims of containing trade secrets and what-so-ever, these types of objects are often subjected to various local "finder's keepers"-laws - so the owner is more or less allowed to do whatever he wants with this - as long as he doesn't start breaking copyright law.
Trust is a very important aspect in this "field." Lots of hardcore collectors sit on things they don't talk about, for many and obvious reasons. Anyone who's all "PRESERVE!!!" should probably go online and try looking for some older releases of unreleased stuff ... you'd be surprised at how hard it can actually be to find downloads for some of these supposedly "preserved" titles. Serious collector's are usually very much capable of and better than the general public when it comes to taking their own meassures to ensure safe storage and backup of data on prototype material in their posession.
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