Similar evil? Used games retail business = Illegal downloading/torrenting?

[thekitchensink]

Spankey said:

UncleScrooge said:

thekitchensink said:

I agree, they're nowhere near the same thing.  If you pirate a game, that means it's available for millions to download at no charge.

If you resell your legitimately purchased copy, that's none of the companies' fucking business.  I have the right to resell my TV, my bookshelf, or my damn house if I want to.  What makes my video games so special?

This! A hundred times!

It is your right as a customer to sell your legally purchased game to whoever you want. The same goes for your old computer, TV, car and everything else.

This discussion is absurd. It's like half of all forum visiters were slaves of the videogaming industry. What's next? Will people stop reselling their cars because of the poor car manufacturers?

Reselling items is part of every market. It's part of a free market economy.

small point but maybe vaguely valid; while you can digitally redistribute software (legally or not) you can't torrent your car to millions of people

We're talking about selling your used copy of the game... as in going to a store, buying a copy, playing it, then selling that copy (the same disc you bought from the store) to someone else or to a used game store.  So it's exactly the same as the car example.