100% serious.

Before you buy something, it is first the producer's property. If they want to put on obligations (such as not being able to resell) that you agree to, then the producer should be able to enforce those obligations. If you don't agree to those obligations, don't continue with the transaction. You have no right to play games, but that have property rights.

Sometimes, I'm actually glad to live in the Eurozone.

But after you buy something, it is your property and no one has any business restricting your property rights. That is the definition of buying as far as I know (and the court seems to agree).

Depends.

If, when you exchange the property, you sign a contract stating that you must use the property in a certain way, then you must stick to that contract.

Also, if you buy a license (which most software is sold as), the software is still not your property. You may be able to sell the license, unless it is part of the agreement that you signed (clicking I Agree, or whatever).

You can't sign your rights away in a contract (even if you do so willingly and voluntarily). Companies like to pretend that what they write in these "license agreements" is gospel, but it's only gospel as far as it doesn't contradict the law.

To give the usual example if I sign a contract saying that you will torture me, that doesn't cease my right to live without being harmed by you.

I don't see the distinction between buying a "software" and a "license". Either I can re-sell the "software" to someone else or I can sell the "license". The effect is the same, after I sell it I can't use it and the other person can.

That's a horrible example, paintings constantly deteriate and require maintenance to increase their lifespan, even well maintained they will eventually be destroyed unless they are presserved in extremely expensive environmentally sealed rooms. Also much of the value of artworks are due to their scarcity, something that certainly won't be the case for digital items.

But the painters could pull a "game publisher" and cry that people maintaining their paintings are unfairly stealing their money :D

"If he wasn't maintaining my painting I would be able to sell another one!!"

Game publishers trying to restrict your lawful right to sell something you own because it may harm them is as ridiculous as that...

Well, considering they're asking something that isn't feasible, This's the end of convenient digital distribution in Europe.

Cant agree more with the above post.

Care to explain why it isn't feasible?