Register Log in  Opposable Thumbs / Gaming & Entertainment  Is
it legal to stop people from selling their used games?  While
limiting consumers' ability to sell used games and game content
might …  If a platform holder wants to make your used games as
useful as this disc fragment, that's their legal right.   At
first glance, such efforts would seem to fall afoul of the
first-sale doctrine. First established in a 1908 Supreme Court
case and codified into law in 1976, the doctrine basically gives
the initial purchaser wide-ranging rights to the use of the
product they've bought, including the right to sell it to a new
owner.  So if a retail game comes with online-activated DRM or
some other method for preventing a second owner from playing,
doesn't that go against this longstanding legal principle?
Probably not, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation
Intellectual Property Director Corryne McSherry. While the
first-sale doctrine says a company can't stop you from selling,
giving away or even breaking your l