Comment When will EULA's be reformed? (Score 1) 935
In several European countries many software publishers are in violation of the law as the publishers do not allow selling of the software key/disk. EULA are non-binding in countries such as Germany because by buying you are agreeing blindly to a contract and German courts among others have declared this an illegal practice and hence you OWN the game and disk since you can not view the EULA before hand, therefore you can sell or trade your disk and license as you see fit.
I'm eager to see how this all plays out. I think these publishers are overstepping their bounds trying to change physical property of disks to ethereal ones of buying a service. Since most MMO make you BUY the game and license and then charge you monthly for the service, it stands to reason that they SHOULD let you sell it, but they just want another retail disk sale instead. I'm hoping the US courts put a stop to this ASAP, though I currently do not know of any lawsuits pending...
I'm eager to see how this all plays out. I think these publishers are overstepping their bounds trying to change physical property of disks to ethereal ones of buying a service. Since most MMO make you BUY the game and license and then charge you monthly for the service, it stands to reason that they SHOULD let you sell it, but they just want another retail disk sale instead. I'm hoping the US courts put a stop to this ASAP, though I currently do not know of any lawsuits pending...
