@DG said:
It's hardly absurd. A licence is a licence, but for some reason you seem to think that you are entitled to sell a VSL licence, whereas you would never think of selling a driving licence. Or a TV licence for that matter
That's exactly my point. Not only would you not think of selling your driving or tv license, but you literally can't, since they are completely intangible. The piece of plastic that represents premission for me to drive is only a representation. If I lose it the DLV will supply another copy - they will charge an admin fee, but they don't tell me that my permission to drive is gone, and claim that I have to start all over again.
According to VSL the dongle is not just a representation of your license, but actually is the license. It's no longer an intangible thing, represented by an object, but actually is the object. And, as I said before, I'm entitled to sell any physical item that I own. So they've put themselves on very dodgy ground.
And this is why I think that it is fair that VSL allows you to sell your licence, even though other companies, that also use dongles for their software, may not. However, I don't think that VSL should be out of pocket, if Steinberg charges an admin fee.
Now as to how much the fee should be; I'm certainly more in your camp on that one. However, I have no idea how much Steiny charges, or how much admin is caused on the VSL side, so I can't really speculate as to whether or not it is fair.
I also think that VSL should have some special sort of insurance that they can recommend to their users, for those people who for some reason are unable to sort it out themselves. That would help, I think.
DG