: Hollywood studios and legal experts questioned the service's legality, suggesting it was essentially unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content. Outcome : All Kickstarter contributors were refunded .

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The core idea was rooted in a principle of copyright law known as the "first-sale doctrine". This doctrine states that when a person lawfully buys a physical copy of a copyrighted work (like a book, a CD, or a DVD), they have the right to sell, lend, or even give away that specific physical copy without needing permission from the copyright holder. MovieSwap attempted to take this principle and drag it, kicking and screaming, into the digital age.