said by owlyn:said by Joe12345678:That sounds like the BS that was used to lock you into renting your home phone in the past.
First-sale doctrine
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi ··· doctrine
This right was underlined by the US courts in the case of NEBG v Weinstein,[4] in which a film-industry defendant accepted that it had no right to restrict buyers of DVDs from renting them to third parties.
IMO, the first sale doctrine has nothing to do with this. The device is "first sold" to an MSO. They can do with it whatever they want- resell it, or not resell it. In the U.S., most do not resell it. Even if the situation is that, in order to purchase and use the boxes, the MSO must enter into an agreement with the manufacturer to not resell the boxes, that is their choice. Also, we don't know who wants that stipulation. The MSOs may insist that the manufacturer not sell to consumers. Either way, the first sale doctrine doesn't seem to apply.
I don't think an agreement like that will hold up in court MS tried stuff like that aka you can only sell systems with windows on them and the courts stopped that.
Any ways what if they where dumped?? I herd some one found a WeatherStar XL in a dumpster at old cable head end.
What if some ended up at a electronics recycling place? The electronics recycling do sell PC's and other stuff they take in.