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Originally Posted by Soldim
From what I've read about the ruling and understand about law, distributors will have a (very) hard time convincing any EU judge to consider resale of a full licence illegal. I am sure there's some grey zones; but based on the current judgement I'd feel pretty comfortable with regards to the law if I would want to resell a purchased software/game/ebook etc. licence.
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Business software or games, yes, I agree, but it's not at all clear that the ruling has any applicability to eBooks. eBooks are not "software", but "data". They aren't treated as a "product" for the purposes of EU VAT (as, for example, a game download is), but as a "service" (just as an MP3 download is).