GameStop Wants To Sell Secondhand Digital Download Video Games 123
MojoKid writes "GameStop makes a killing selling used videogames, but what happens to that business model when digital distribution platforms run physical media out of town? That's not anything to worry about today, tomorrow, next week, or even next year, but at some point, GameStop will have to deal with the direction the games industry is headed, and it may already have a solution. GameStop CEO Paul Raines recently brought up the possibility of reselling used digital downloads."
GameStop *has* a digital distribution platform (Score:5, Informative)
GameStop has also been getting into the refurbished iDevice market [gamestop.com]. There will always be hardware of some kind to (re)sell.
Can't stop reselling in the EU (Score:4, Informative)
I note that recently the Court of Justice of the European Union rejected an attempt by Oracle to stop the sale of secondhand licences on software downloaded over the internet. [theregister.co.uk] It seems to me that reselling of games software should also be allowed under the same ruling.