EU Vice-president says once a video game is sold, it is owned by the customer.

[Argyle King]

Basically, you can't write a contract to allow you to do something illegal. The contract is not valid. So if this stuff was enshrined into law, a contract can't override that. You can't carefully word a contract to make a murder legal, as an extreme example.

I mean, I don't think that's going to happen. I'm just talking hypothetically.

Sure, I get that.

Currently, companies aren't trying to make something illegal into something legal; their position is that they're not doing the illegal thing at all.

@Nikosandros made a good point about writing something saying that video games cannot be licensed, only sold.

If something like that were to happen, I'm curious how that would play out given that most console companies (i.e. XBox, Playstation) get most of their content via agreements with third parties.