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GMG: EU resale ruling will "shake up the digital distribution market"
Today’s eye-catching ruling that publishers cannot prevent gamers reselling downloaded games will, in the long-term, “shake up the digital distribution market”, according to one affected online shop. Green Man Gaming boss Paul Sulyok told Eurogamer that the Court of Justice of the European Union’s ruling is “very disruptive”, but insisted that in the short-term little will change. The EU today ruled that “an author of software cannot oppose the resale of his ‘used’ licences allowing the use of his programs downloaded from the internet”. The Court said the exclusive right of distribution of a copy of a computer program covered by the license is “exhausted on its first sale”. Read more…
