| Nem said: I have been saying this for a while. This has got to be illegal. Theres no way they will get away with this in europe. Really, look at it. They are trying to sell the same disc multiple times. They are doing this by invalidating the disc and making it a network code. This is completely ilegal. There is no way it isnt. Microsoft is insane with greed. |
Um...some of what you said is absolutely not illegal.
I too question the legallity of Microsoft setting a price or cut of a second-hand sale. However, I don't know if this would be consider collusion or not. Microsoft is NOT fixing the price, they're merely defining the amount a third-party can receive using their system for license exchange. On that latter part there are no laws. None.
The ruling in the EU that permitted second-hand sales did not define how a license transfer could take place, only that a copyright holder could deactivate a license for a particular licensee should a license transfer take place. So if I sold my license to you, Microsoft can remotely disable my copy of the software.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/what-does-eus-used-software-sales-ruling-mean/
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2012/07/04/curia-digital-distribution/1
Until the law catches up with the ruling it'll be what we call "The Wild West". It seems as though whatever solutions companies come up with will be legal as long as they permit a transfer of ownership.
