Developer says Used Games Sales worse then Piracy

[Soonerman]

Tanstalas said:

Soonerman said:

vlad321 said:
Do people in this thread realize that video games are not even close to being the same as a car or other such physical goods?

How are they not the same thing? They are my property. I bought my games with my money to use for my pleasure and I will sell them when when that pleasure is gone just like I do with a car, house, or any piece of property.

Why don't you read the EULA? 

You obviously don't know jack about EULAs. Here's what gives me the ownership and power to sell an "intellectual property"

First, the First-Sale Doctrine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_sale_doctrine

And here's Third Party Rights privilege the government has given me as a buyer.

Third-party rights

Privity of contract occurs only between the parties to the contract, most commonly contract of sale of goods or services. Horizontal privity arises when the benefits from a contract are to be given to a third party. Vertical privity involves a contract between two parties, with an independent contract between one of the parties and another individual or company.

If a third party gets a benefit under a contract, it does not have the right to go against the parties to the contract beyond its entitlement to a benefit. An example of this occurs when a manufacturer sells a product to a distributor and the distributor sells the product to a retailer. The retailer then sells the product to a consumer. There is no privity of contract between the manufacturer and the consumer.

This, however, does not mean that the parties do not have another form of action e.g. Donoghue v. Stevenson – here a friend of Ms. Donoghue bought her a bottle of ginger beer, which was defective. Specifically, the ginger beer contained the partially decomposed remains of a snail. Since the contract was between her friend and the shop owner, Mrs. Donoghue could not sue under the contract, but it was established that the manufacturer has a duty of care owed to their consumers and she was awarded damages in tort.

Privity is the legal term for a close, mutual, or successive relationship to the same right of property or the power to enforce a promise or warranty.