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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If you purchase software that comes on some sort of physical medium such as a CD, you are allowed to resell. But if it's a download and you have no physical medium, you don't have the right to resell. Same exact program, but one has physical medium and the other does not.
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That's changed in the EU. The courts have decided if you purchase digital software such as games and apps, then the developer/publishers cannot stop you reselling that software even via an EULA.
In practice, how that will work I'm not sure. When you consider many games and apps are now tied to an account and include DRM, unless the devs/publishers are obliged to provide a way to transfer ownership it could be a toothless ruling.
Sure you can resell it, but the person you're selling it to can't use it with potentially breaking the law by removing DRM and assuming it's not dependant on an online service tied to an account.
I hope it becomes a requirement for any company that sells digitally to provide an authorised way to transfer licenses. I doubt they'll be quick to do so without a requirement to do it though.
Even without that ruling though, I have always thought that whoever is named in a will for receipt of all your physical property should also be provided an equal share of your digital items. Of course, it's one of those issues that's much easier said than done.