European Union court: Consumers have the right to re-sell their Digitally Distributed games

[Mnementh]

mor2 said:

Mnementh said:
Basically they argue, the judges have ruled, that Oracle (in this case) cannot forbid the resale of their software-download. But they didn't forbid entangling software with a account (like Steam or itunes) or with the hardware. That wasn't part of the ruling. A different case would be needed, to open up Steam.

IMO they do, steam and Itunes provide other services beside DRM and if they want they would be able to limit or block them(i.e. disterbution etc) for resaled copies(unless I buy a pass), but as it is if I want to sell my game to a friends, steam are not allowed to block it, they have to trasnfer the game to his account...

I can only say, what the article says, and that article is written by a lawyer. But also a lawyer can interpret this wrong too.