• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    The physical media is whatever is playing the content. The law doesn’t specify the media.

    1909, one year after the Supreme Court ruling: “Your honor, I know that the Supreme Court ruled that publishers can’t add a shrink wrap license that prohibits cheap resale of copyrighted work but you see, I delivered the content on llamas where it was printed onto scrolls at the customer’s home so the law doesn’t apply. You wrote the laws thinking about trains and ships transporting books and I use neither.”

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      14 hours ago

      Yes that’s why you can buy software and sell the computer with the licenses following along it, assuming you don’t keep copies separately

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        12 hours ago

        Yeah… virtually every software license disagrees with you. You can’t transfer a steam account, you (according to Microsoft) can’t even transfer the OS license.
        Personally I agree that we should be able to do so, but that exactly what is being argued - publishers are ignoring first sale doctrine