Which is moraly (not legaly) worse? Secondhand _ Pirating _ Renting_Lending

[Zucas]

vlad321 said:

Zucas said:
Only pirating is immoral. It is the only one where the publisher (not the developer as they have no role in this part) is not actually selling the copy to someone. In all the others, the developer has already sold that copy so at least they got something out of it. In pirating... they get nothing.

Same with used games as well. They see nothing from them.

@ironman

Counterfeits are not perfect copies and unless it's money they get tried for fraud not sopyright infringement.

As to used game sales being good for the industry, then so are pirated games. Developers see none of the money in either case.

Oh that makes sense.  Where did they get the used copy to begin with?  Hmm... unless it was stolen out of the publisher's warehouse I'm pretty sure some retailer had to originally buy it from them.  Yes they'll lose potential sales but they will still get something for that first individual copy.