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

[Spankey]

mibuokami said:

Spankey said:

thekitchensink said:

Spankey said:

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.

That's why i said vaguely.

Imagine someone goes to a shop, buys a legal game, turns it into a torrent, then resells the game. you still can't torrent a car yet. even if you let everyone else on the planet drive it around, it's still only one (rather well used) car. a torrent can potentially get to millions of copies of itself.

You are now combining piracy with used game sale, while this thread was specifically created to differentiated the two; thus the argument is irrelevant to the post you were originally replying to.

 

OT: The justification is extremely thin. Other electronic medium suffers the same fate: DVD, BD, Music-CD, this is not new even to digital medium. LIVE WITH IT developer! And stop shoving you asinine view on the evil of second hand retail down consumer's throat.

That's why I said vaguely