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Court limits right to sell used software - Boing Boing

Before too long, music will only be sold via lists printed on mimeographed sheets that you will queue up to look at in GUM-style stores. No photo of the cover will be available, because the image is copyrighted. No listening to the music beforehand to decide if you enjoy it, because the sound is copyrighted. You won't hear it on the radio for the same reason. You won't be able to listen to it with your friends unless they've purchased licenses to hear it. Sounds like a perfect way to keep the big music companies that initiated this shit (that is now spreading to software and everything else) rolling in dough....or maybe not.

I still don't understand why most of these EULAs are enforceable. US Copyright law is very clear: if you have a legal copy of software, you have the right to run it (unless patent law overrides this as it can in some, but not most, cases). So the EULA doesn't grant the consumer any rights or property which they don't already possess. That's the textbook case of a contract which is unenforceable because of being one-sided.

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