Second hand trade hurts developers as much as software piracy...

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Alterego-X said:

Faxanadu said:

numonex said:
I'm surprised Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft haven't all pushed for second hand game / software sales to be deemed illegal purely on that point. It wouldn't surprise me at all for it to happen within the next 5 years.

With the current glut of games I often see new release games drop to half price within 2-3 months, makes me wonder how the market can survive. I'm expecting another video games crash like back in the 80s.

Oh my. Very wise idea. As if something this substantial in ownership/copyright would have changed by software developers.

This would have massive effects on everything from selling houses to cars to everything.

 

Please do your homework and stop this stuff. Selling a property you owned is not illegal.

Except that you don't own any game, unless it is actually your own intellectual property.  If it is the publisher's IP, it is THEIR property, you just paid $60 for the right to use it in a way they allowed it to you. It's all written in the EULA. 

If it would be your property, selling, modifying,  and copying it would be equally legal, but it isn't. 

 

 

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the validity of many EULAs has not been tested in court, let alone in higher courts which can really set a precedent for this sort of stuff.

Just because a publisher writes a EULA which says you're only allowed to install the game once, that doesn't make it legal, and it doesn't make violating the EULA illegal.