Interesting indeed. Makes one wonder how this could be applied to the resale of for example books. It’s not so much the value of the paper, but the ideas printed on it that gives it value. Also, how will software companies square this with their revenues for “sales”? Did they just sell a plastic disk? Did they lease it? Did they sell the disk but lease the intellectual property? A big ol can of worms.
I don't believe anyone has every tried it with books, but a know the music business made a run at used CD’s and got nowhere.
The funny part is this. I hope it does stand. I'd rather have the software companies keep “ownership” in their product - and then have to answer for it being full of bugs and mistakes!
I have a feeling that the lost revenue from resales is nothing compared to the cost of having to produce a product that actually does what they claim it will do.