When I heard about this, I was also wondering about the implications for ebook resale. On the one hand, it sucks for video games owners! On the other hand, this is something that ebook owners have argued for: it WOULD be possible to legally sell or trade used ebooks, if there were a mechanism in place for it. So could this set a precedent for such a mechanism?
And about the blurring of physical product and licensing: this news comes RIGHT after Adobe announced that their flagship products will be "cloud only." You run the software on your own computer (not in the cloud), but you RENT the software. Your computer has to connect to Adobe's servers roughly every 30 days, to make sure you're paid up. If not, your software stops working! No more access to your own files! This has been a huge brouhaha on other message boards* (and I am one who uses Adobe products professionally and I'm burning mad about it).
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*Hi Glen Barrington!
