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

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Wow, so many users on this forum are sicophants for the publishers.

Once you buy a game you own it. It is your property. If you want to loan or resell it, that is fully within your rights. It is so ludicrous to even consider calling reselling games "immoral" that I scarcely know what to say in response. Should we all stop buying used cars because GM can't turn a profit despite billions in revenue? Stop swallowing the kool aid from the publishers who are whining insufferably and want to take away your personal property rights.

Let's be honest, we're not talking about supporting starving artists here, the gaming industry brings in billions of dollars, yet is so inefficiently managed that few companies turn a profit. Look at how well Nintendo runs their business, they "get" it. Companies that are hemorrhaging money do not "get" it. (How many users complain about lack of Wii 3rd party support and decisions like EA doing a "test" game with "Dead Space: On Rails Shooter"?)

If the games are good, people are going to buy them new and hang on to them (making it even harder to find used copies). If I buy a crappy game, I would like the peace of mind to know that I can resell it to recoup some of my losses, not to mention that I, like many gamers, often plow that resale money right back into new purchases.

And lending? Are you freaking serious? What, I'm somehow an immoral, mustachioed villian because I used to swap SNES cartridges with my childhood friends? Give me a break. I guess I never should have ridden my buddy's bicycle and put Schwinn out of business, or gone over his house and watched a VHS tape that I didn't own, or borrowed his "And Justice for All" cassette when my tape deck ate mine, or played his copy of Monopoly, or drank lemonade out of one of his glasses. I guess I'm just some parasitic slug on the backside of corporate America, an imorral borrower of objects--better not ask my neighbor for his chainsaw so I can cut down that leaning tree in my backyard, Stihl deserves their money same as everyone.