Mnementh said:
Which laws do you mean? There were lawsuits that decided that it is legal to sell used software. but no lawsuits that forbade making techniques for making reselling software hard or impossible. So I don't see a base, on which XBone is unlawful here. |
Seems a recent law
A recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union has officially stated that “an author of software cannot oppose the resale of his ‘used’ licences allowing the use of his programs downloaded from the internet”. In essence, it is now illegal in Europe for companies to try to stop you from selling your used digitally distributed software.
The exclusive right of distribution of a copy of a computer program covered by such a licence is exhausted on its first sale.
http://www.lo-ping.org/2012/07/03/eu-court-ruling-allows-for-re-sale-of-used-games-by-end-users-you/
