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it's tuesday july third 2012 i'm david pierce and you and I are about to spend 90 seconds on the verge the EU Court of Justice says selling used copies of digital software is legal in a case between Oracle and used soft the court ruled that digital download licenses shouldn't be treated differently from physical media there are a number of caveats in the ruling and of course this only applies to Europe so far in the u.s. people can legally resell physical media but not digital sadly trading in your xbox live arcade games for beer money is probably still a ways off speaking of Microsoft remember the Kin soon windows vista on upcoming report from Vanity Fair hopes to shed light on the company's quotes Lost Decade the P straws on dozens of interviews and internal records and paints a picture of Microsoft as a bureaucratic nightmare one particularly interesting note was an ereader prototype from 1998 that was next because it didn't integrate with windows or office none of the stories are particularly surprising but it comes at an interesting inflection point for Microsoft the company's next decade should be even more telling as it tries to turn around in the consumer space with windows 8 surface all things metro and many many Halo CE rules Sony Music Unlimited today became the first major streaming service to launch in Japan the service boasts 10 million songs with apps for Android iOS Mac PC and of course the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita with a monthly fee that translates to about eighteen dollars us it's a bit expensive but seeing as how you don't have Spotify Rdio or Pandora well you don't really have a choice that's it for today's top stories tune in tomorrow for a review shootout which AI babysitter is best for your kids