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This is one of those conundrums that need to be solved for the digital age: What is transferable? Is it okay to sell a computer with a separate piece of software already on it? Is software okay, but an e-book forbidden? Should the buyer be forced to pay a full or discounted amount for the software and/or e-book?
Some software, such as Photoshop, is registered to the computer and its owner, and if one of those changes, the software disables itself. Understandable, since Adobe doesn't want to lose the payment due each version of Photoshop, which isn't cheap.
Other software is similarly registered, but won't just disable itself if you change something... usually these are fairly inexpensive pieces of software, so it's more of an issue of not being worth the trouble to prevent ownership transferal.
Again, the issue boils down to one of potential duplicates going unpaid-for... and the fact that everyone wants to get stuff cheap or free, if they can get away with it. If easy duplication of software, or an e-book, were preventable, therefore, transferal of ownership wouldn't be such a sticky situation.
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