Sony officially states that PlayStation 4 will not have DRM against used games

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scat398 said:

kupomogli said:

scat398 said:
My main problem with the fight against drm is that it goes against everything we currently do with media.

Music pays royalties, online and physical.
Movies, books, tv shows, all pay royalties on the used market.

Yet for some reason games are supposed to be different. Drm is needed.

No they don't. You buy used anything and not a dime of it is going back to whoever the creator or publisher was.  All profit goes to the used dealer.  It's bullshit how video game publishers are the only ones that think that they're different and they force this on the market.

This is incorrect.  For example if you sell your cd to a used music store the resale of that cd collects a royalty,  Same with used book, and other intellectual property.  If you redistribute media property for the purpose if resale a royalty is collected, except on games.  The concept that a games is more like a table than a song is ridiculous.  When you buy the game you are not buying the rights to the game, you don't own it, you own the right to use it, and if you sell it the liscence under which you purchased the game is removed and the new seller is responsible for royalties.

Let pirates do what they want, you don't cave into to theft by allowing it to happen you stand against it like any other wrong.

It's called the first sale doctrine and by law means that the copyright holder has no say in what is done with that item after it's sold.