Microsoft hasn’t been having a great time in courts around the world. Recently, we saw Microsoft get sued by an Australian group after the latter claimed that the former was hiding cheaper Microsoft 365 renewal prices from the people.
However, as that fight was beginning, another one was beginning to wrap up, and it isn’t good news for Microsoft. A UK court has ruled that the company can no longer prevent people from reselling license keys for its products, after Microsoft claimed that doing so “infringed copyright.”
Microsoft lost a court case after claiming that reselling its licenses "infringed copyright"
Submitted 12 hours ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to technology@lemmy.zip
GammaGames@beehaw.org 8 hours ago
This will be interesting
Socket462@feddit.it 3 hours ago
For personal/home use I always buy from key shops. Never had a problem with win10/win11 and even Office (before I switched to open source alternative)
I thought this was already settled down long ago, at least in Europe.
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
It’s not cleanly defined for digital only sales