Piracy.

[Katilian]

Kasz216 said:

Millennium said:
Used games are not stealing. A game maker is only entitled to money from any given copy the first time it is sold, just like any other product. You wouldn't think of giving the maker of a piece of furniture some of the money you got from selling it at a yard sale, would you? Why should game makers be any different?

It's not illegal to copy something and personally use it either.

It's only illegal in regards to software, why is software any different?

If I can figure out the ingridents in coke, I can copy and make all the coke i want and coke can't do anything to stop me.

 The reason why it's illegal?

Software is easier to copy.

Why are used games bad?

Software is harder to damage.

Unless it's scratched, a New game is just as valuable as a used game.

While most used products have a decline in quality.

While I agree with what you are saying, your coke example is incorrect. That would be similar to reverse engineering a program (which these days can even be illegal too thanks to the DMCA) then creating your own implementation. And of course as Millennium as pointed out patents (copyright isn't an issue in reverse engineering as long as you don't use any of their code, and you can only violate trade secrets if you've signed an NDA) can make a mess of this, however Coke does not have a patent so feel free to try :)