Anti-piracy measures will still fail, even if they actually stop piracy.

[vlad321]

Wonktonodi said:

vlad321 said:

To me selling your games to a used market is that lowest circle of hell thing. You are profitting off someone else's back and are very much like the pirates who go and make money off their "sharing." Not the ones that get no monetary benefit from it other than the "savings." That said I have to do a shameless plug because I posted a great article about this very thing not 3 weeks ago:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=125882&page=1&str=2122695391#

I don't see how someone selling games to a used market (or straight to someone else for that matter) is profiting off someone elses back. First it's hardly profit since the money spent on the game is almost always more than the money one can get back.  Second when they sell it they no longer can use it. Like a book or a DVD even a CD (although with CD's almost everyone can just rip them so they can still have the songs but loose the disc cover and any pamphlet)

Next what do you think most retail is by that standard then?

You profit from it because you gained the experience of the game, plus you made money after you were done with it. You made some money more than you would have if you hadn't sold it, and at the same time prevented the developer from seeing some amount of money for their game. When someone pirates a game the developer doesn't see the money, but you don't gain money in return either. Basically you end up with more money while the developer sees the exact same amount from whoever got it after you if they pirated it.