Who says its Sony attacking used game sales. Seems that if the code came along with the game, then even second hand you should still have access to online so long as the code comes with it. Unless I'm missing something.
As for the used car analogy, in the real world used car sales help new car sales by lowering the cost of ownership of a car. Lets say person A buys a $30k car. 3 years later he decides he wants to purchase a new car, which is also $30k. Now with used car sales, person A could sell their first car for $15k to person B, who could only ever afford a $15k car. Then person A goes and buys the new $30k car. Total cost = $45k.
In an alternative world where second hand cars were either banned or financially crippled (or taxed off the road like Japan), person A would have to greatly reduce the price of his 3 year old car to sell it, due to any potential owner having to spend big on whatever financial road blocks a company may put in. End result is person A pays more overall to purchase a new car, so they either buy a cheaper car that the car company makes less money on, or they purchase cars less frequently, making the car companies less money.
Its tempting to think that if used cars were banned, people would have to purchase new cars and so more money is made, but people only earn so much money each year, so for many if they couldn't buy a used car they would have to purchase a new cheaper car far less frequently, which flows onto richer people purchasing fewer cars because its more expensive for them to replace their current cars. End result is car companies make less money.
I don't see how game sales would be any different.
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