Selling academic software - questions

[arun21]

What is the name of your state? New York.


I had been selling for about a year on ebay some academic software from a large vendor. The way that I was going about selling it was logging into an account that was initially visible for everyone to see/know the details of username/password. This is just on their website and they freely gave out this information.

Months past, I continued ordering. I noticed they took that site down where they listed how to access the special website to receive lower prices.

I received a call from this company and they are threatening legal action for unauthorized use and lost profits, etc. Any thoughts?

 

[You Are Guilty]

Any thoughts?

Sure, sounds like you're busted. Hope you saved all your "profits", this could get very expensive.

 

[arun21]

The thing is, access to this website to purchase this software was freely available for anyone to see.

I paid for these items with my money. There was nothing I had to sign saying I would not resell, etc.

 

[arun21]

since the box was not opened, the "shrinkwrap" license is, from my understanding, not in force. if the license even says anything about reselling...