He acknowledges that eBay is helping popularise the concept of bidding for goods and services.

ECONOMIST: A market too far

Hollywood is still clinging on to the concept of selling physical goods like BluRay and DVD disks and giving those formats an advantage over legal streams.

FORBES: Internet VOD: Some progress but still ways to go

The notion of being able to sell on your unwanted digital goods is a concept that has caught the eyes of, among others, Amazon and Apple.

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