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

[vlad321]

Zucas said:
Vlad- now I'm actually surprised because there is a very strong argument for the case of Used games being even worse than pirating. Actually something you said to disagree with... and that is how many people it can affect. Piracy is pretty big right now but it will never be mainstream enough to get the mainstream involved in it. Aren't going to see mom and pop downloading games through torrents and whatnot. But used games are sold in stores where they buy the new games. They aren't going to see the moral difference and thus used games can be largely mainstream where EVERY gamer does it... something piracy could never achieve. Even more so as Best Buy and Toys R Us are looking to enter the used game market.

This is actually the argument publishers are using that even though piracy hurts the affects of used games will hurt even worse given the mainstream appeal ability they have. That is why I still consider used games to be a very very close problem to that of piracy. Just the deal is that piracy is immoral and illegal while used games are protected by the system and against rights to take it away. Meaning you got to find another way to fight it.

Thank you for seeing the point however the problem is that pirating is starting to become very mainstream overseas. My gf's mother downloads shows and movies  all the time and she is VERY old.

 

@Wonk

The point is you play the game and the developers see none of the money. I doub they give a damn whether you keep the copy afterwards or not, you still played the game and they saw nothing for their labors. Also here are ways to add incentives against pirating to software. Again, look at Blizzard and Valve, they had some damn fine way "multiplayer." Just because you keep it or not doesn't mean anything to the developer.