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If you pay to download a video game, does it then become a product you own? And should you then be allowed to sell or give it away like you can with physical products?

The European Union's Court of Justice has its own opinions on this longrunning debate, noting as part of a filing today that customers should indeed own the rights to digital software.

"Moreover, as stated in paragraph 46 above, in a situation such as that at issue in the main proceedings, the copyright holder transfers the right of ownership of the copy of the computer program to his customer," the court said.

The Court also ruled that customers should be able to re-sell their digital software:

Since the copyright holder cannot object to the resale of a copy of a computer program for which that rightholder's distribution right is exhausted under Article 4(2) of Directive 2009/24, it must be concluded that a second acquirer of that copy and any subsequent acquirer are ‘lawful acquirers' of it within the meaning of Article 5(1) of Directive 2009/24.

Consequently, in the event of a resale of the copy of the computer program by the first acquirer, the new acquirer will be able, in accordance with Article 5(1) of Directive 2009/24, to download onto his computer the copy sold to him by the first acquirer. Such a download must be regarded as a reproduction of a computer program that is necessary to enable the new acquirer to use the program in accordance with its intended purpose.
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So what does this mean for gamers? Well, nothing—for now. But a ruling like this could set a precedent for future digital-rights cases in Europe, particularly surrounding distribution services like Steam and Origin.

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so what, resell wouldn't be much anyways.
 
I wonder if users can set their own prices to resell their DLC and Digital Games like real games since selling used Digital games would be like new since Digital files don't get scratch, cracked, missing box/manuals or abused which make it worth less like real games, so buying a used license key would be like a new license key.
 
I agree it would anger smaller DLC sellers which don't earn a lot from DLC since they have fewer buyers, but for games like Call of Duty, Mario, Pokemon, Diablo 3, and huge game makers which make hundreds of millions of dollars in the first few weeks they probably won't be affected by it as much since they already made hundreds of millions to billions of dollars world wide in the first few weeks of sales before people start selling their used DLC games they finish playing.

Game companies might just have to pump out more Digital games faster, and promote their new games more on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and their own website to sell to fans, and people who never heard of the games instead of finish making one game, and slowly taking their time to make new games, and hope word of mouth, and traditional media like TV, Radio, and Newspaper ads are good enough to spread the news of the games, so people keep buying new games, finishing them, and reselling them to used DLC buyers.

More consumers might buy DLC if they know they can resell them to other players if it is bad, or they get bored of them instead of just deleting them from their hard drive to free up space for new games. This is one of the reasons many people still buy disc games, DVD movies, and Music CDs since they can resell them when they are bored of them instead of just throwing them out in the trash because they are running out of room in their house to store them.

The true fans who are addicted to the games will buy the DLC once they are release, and not wait for used DLC to be available on the marketplace.
 
I really wish Steam trade allows for trading actual games... :/ Not really reselling but still make them worth something.
 
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