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The right to resell: a ticking time bomb over digital goods

• tagada 14y ago
  Really, it never was different. You never had the right to resell licenses ... only supports. When you used to buy cassettes, vinyls or CD / DVD, you were buying the support, and licensing for the content (for personal usage, most of the time) at the same time. The only difference is that the license seemed to be attached to the support (in the same way the "genuine" sticker with the serial is stuck on the Windows boxes), so it was confusing whether the content was licensed to you or to the support. Actually, it was to you, and you had no rights to sell it. But it was tolerated. Because you had the right to sell the support. But theoretically, the license stayed yours, and the new owner had no rights to use the content of the support he bought. Now, will probably much more difficult, technically, since you buy the license without any kind of support ... On the other side, if you are careful enough, you can keep it lifelong and if you are clever enough, you can share it with all your relatives and friends lifetime.