first sale doctrine being overturned for software sales

[sdowney717]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/first-sale-doctrine/

this means you dont own the right to sell software you bought.
Open source of course is exempt.
This company objected and ebay was forced to remove the add.

I have yet to desire to sell any software I ever bought. I think people should be able to sell whatever software they want if they bought it.

[Old Marcus]

True, I occasionally sell old computer games on eBay, I don't expect to get a huge amount for them, but someone else gets to enjoy them. Anyone looking for cheap copies of MW2 on eBay probably aren't going to buy at full whack either way.

[Austin25]

I'm tired of them lobbyists.

[Ctrl-Alt-F1]

That's lame. I don't pirate anything. I don't even have restricted codecs on my linux partition. However, I think this is a bit ridiculous.

[Dr. C]

Just one more reason to avoid propriety software and stay with FLOSS especially if the propriety software is not free as in beer.