NJ5 said:
You "can" resell it but you won't be able to if a EULA says you can only install the game once. Then no one will buy the disc from you, as it's useless. Which brings me back to my point that I don't know if these sort of EULAs are legally enforceable.
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Yes and No.
They techinically violate the laws of a number of states... including where your from... but at the same time, you'll never win a case on it because governments don't want to upset the status quo buisness model. Which is why most of these weird newer IP stuff goes on... to protect a money for product market in a world where things can be copied with no effort.
If you were jesus and you started giving away free fish you copied from red lobster.... people would not be throwing you in jail.
Basically how the laws are written... espiecally from your area... laws are written so that after the exchange of money for goods has been made no further contract details that can be inforced on you to not have your product.
How they've interpreted this in the way of computer games is... while if you disagree with the EULA about how to use the game... you don't have to use it. If you disagree with the EULA... you've STILL GOT THE CD. Even though by not agree withing the EULA you can't even download or use the software... it doesn't violate the law because you don't have to return the Cd...
Which is of course... silly. It would be like buying a TV, then reading in an EULA that you can't legally USE it.
