| vlad321 said: Just a quick math to show that second hand is morally wworse than pirating: End result: Second hand people are more greedy and immoral than pirates. |
Hold up.
In your Pirating example, 1 guy pays $50. Everyone else gets it free, and everyone still has access to play the game.
In your second hand example, 1 guy pays $50. Once he sells it, he cannot play it again, and must either buy or rent the game if he desires to play it. This includes each person who owns the game - once they sell it, they cannot play the game again (this is important). Also, each person who owns the game is not making money - overall, they break even. How can they be making money amongst themselves?
I imagine you're thinking of a place like Gamestop. In that case, each customer that buys the game loses money, while Gamestop makes money off each sale. I suppose you can consider that immoral, but I think it's fair game - they're simply making money doing people a service, which is making it easy to find cheaper (used) games. It's an alternative to places like Ebay or half.com.
Edit: Forgot to mention why being unable to play the game is important. Basically, there's a limited amount of second hand copies. If all of these are bought up, one must look to new copies in order to play (which means $$ for devs). Pirating increases supply (by creating copies), which can potentially decrease demand (and therefore, the price).
