Pete- Your post reminded me of a situation I face every day. As a journalist I am mailed a few dozen CDs a week. Many are things I like, a lot are either popular things I hate, or total garbage. Every few months, I accumulate a hundred or so CDs I have no use for. The first thing I try to do is give them to people who will want them. The next step would normally be to take them to a second-hand store and sell them, or place them on eBay. Of course doing so would violate the terms of "promo" CDs, which claim to be the property of the record lable. I could get away with it, but it would jeopardize my status with the lables, and I don't need the money that badly. TO make it worse, some labels recently started encoding CDs with digital fingerprints, and recording what journalist gets what copy. So even if I were to donate them to Salvation Army, and a buyer one day re-sells it, and a year down the line someone from the label find it being sold somewhere, I'm busted. Same thing if I throw it away, and it ends up in a store somehow. OK, it's unlikely, but it leaves me wondering what the labels expect me to do with them. I wallpapered my bathroom wall with CDs in Brooklyn. Persoanlly, I say that if they want to assert eternal ownership, they should assume the charges for return postage.