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Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software
dreemteem writes "A judge Tuesday heard arguments in a dispute over software sales that could potentially have repercussions on the secondhand sale of virtually any copyrighted material. The suit was filed by Timothy Vernor, a seller on eBay, after Autodesk, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, asked eBay to remove some of its software products that Vernor had listed for sale there, and later to ban him from the site. Vernor had not illegally copied the software but was selling legitimate CDs of the products secondhand. For that reason, he argued, he was not infringing Autodesk's copyright. Autodesk countered that because it licenses the software, rather than selling it outright, a licensee does not have the right to resell its products."
I can usually buy a used copy of a console game for a fraction of the new price
9/10ths is the fraction I usually see.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
>>>And people complain about socialism limiting freedoms...
Yes because a corporation is still just a corporation. They have a lot of power to make your life unhappy, but they still don't have the power to suck $$$ from your wallet, or jail you, or draft you to die in Arghanistan. Only government can do that, and therefore government is the greater evil.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
i agree - would you like to buy my DISK? it's silver and has the words "district 9 screener" sharpied on it.
but this is legal because, who cares about what's on the disk, right?