This isn't just about "re-selling an MP3." For example, let's say you have a webcast (and you pay all the royalties, etc). Looks like you're not allowed to "broadcast" from Amazon tracks.

Or what if you want to remix a song into a home movie and upload to YouTube? Looks like the contract bars that, too.

And what about loaning your iPod to a friend to listen to? Or your wife? The contract seems to forbid that, too.

Copyright law is bad enough, but at least it has some flexibility built into it, thanks to fair use. This contract is far more brittle and less realistic than that.

A friend in college designed a NASA poster for a graphic arts class. It was the image of a shuttle launch, accompanied by a single word: "Up".