I do not care, even in the slightest about a marketing departments “losses” from issuing CD keys.

Not even in the slightest. Its the cost of doing business.

No other industry, not even the software industry, gets to do this.

Unilever sends me some shit to review? They’re not allowed to be upset about the eventual fate of those things.

CD keys are property, and property is tradable.

Just because the original intent is X or Y, doesn’t mean dick for shit.

If they didn’t like it, maybe they shouldn’t issue so many free copies.

At some point they have to take responsibility for the keys they’re minting. They can always issue time-limited keys.

There’s so many technical solutions to it and so much crying over the resale that I just do not buy the story.