However, there is no EU court ruling that extends it specifically to digital movie and audio content, like is the case with software.Īnd Valve won the case on that technicality.
The doctrine of exhaustion applies equally well to music CDs, or to BlueRay or DVD movies. While the EU court rulings have decided that software falls under the doctrine of exhaustion and it should be made possible to resell, there's a slight technicality that video games carry additional audio/visual components that make them more than just software. Originally posted by RiO:The german consumer authority case? Valve won on a technicality, iirc, because the germans filed the wrong charges.
