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With books and older non-unique registration code games it is explicitly legal to sell them second, third, etc hand.
At least in the EU and UK where those overly restrictive licenses you bring up have been declared ineffective. Maybe in the US it's just another personal freedom sacrificed for freedom of capital.
Sure, sell. But there are still limitations. You aren’t allow to rent it out or sell copies, for example.
Just because the license is a bit more permissive doesn’t make you the owner, it’s still licensed software, not owned software.
The only thing you own is the 2 cents worth of plastic the disc is made off. The actual content on the disc is licensed.