The word 'flog' is in more or less common use in the United States for 'sell'.

Years ago, the courts of the various western nations decided that persons could legally copy lp's and tapes for back-up and for convenience of use in various places. A little later they decided that it was legal to copy any and all television programming to "time shift" it to a more acessable time slot. The current mess is nothing less than the music industry (primarily) trying to recover what the courts once took away. Technically, this is called 'GREED'.