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by NelsonMinar 1435 days ago
Agreed. Part of the problem is digital goods pretty much never have a right of resale. That's bullshit, particularly for e-Books where the electronic copy often costs more than the resellable paper copy.
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> digital goods pretty much never have a right of resale

In some cases this has been tried in court and the decision has been that a sale is a sale and that you can do what you will with it.

See, for instance, https://www.lw.com/thoughtLeadership/CJEURulesResaleofUsedSo... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine