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There was the famous Oracle vs UsedSoft lawsuit: https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/3/3134867/eu-court-of-justic...

This basically added jurisprudence that digital downloads can be resold provided that the original is made unusable.

Most software EULA say they are non-transferable, but that court order overrules it. That restriction has become meaningless. Interesting!

That case was one of the reasons that Adobe and Microsoft switched to a subscription-based model for their software suites.

That makes sense. I also saw some speculation that it's helped accelerate some vendors' efforts to convert customers to cloud offerings. On the other hand, I saw a very insightful analysis that thought vendors fighting this were being short sighted because annual maintenance can often be upwards of 20% of the initial license, and so recipients of second hand software would still be more than making up for the revenue in the not-so-long term.

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