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Old 08-29-2014, 04:08 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by mandy314 View Post
But I'm appalled seeing a high level court judging Term of Use prohibiting the reselling of ebooks legal. In Germany the legal situation isn't clearcut at all - could have gone either way I think. Afaik selling of used Steam licences is legal, so is selling of games on CD/DVD but not of downloaded games. Music CD or Video DVD/BlueRay no problem - downloaded music/video no go. Used software licences on the other hand can be sold.
It's a clear legal precedent:

You can't resell downloaded MP3 files.
You can't resell downloaded apps bought from the iTunes or Android App stores.
You can't resell downloaded digital content in general, it seems to me.
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