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ArnoldRimmer said:
kitler53 said:

so you didn't read the second part i take it...

edit: just maybe you'll read it the second time through...

                 once transferred the original seller's rights end and the buyers begins.

You DO realize that a game uploaded to the internet was in most cases bought as well?

The main difference between a person selling a game and a person uploading a game to the internet is that by uploading a game to the internet, the bought disc is kind of being cloned, whereas there is still just one copy when a game is sold.

You can bring up legal definitions as much as you like, from the developers/publishers point of view, there is simply indeed very little difference: they only get money from the first person who bought the game new.

In practice, devs/publishers hate the used games probably even more, because on current consoles playing used games is much more common than playing pirated games, meaning: in practice, used games reduce the money they make more than pirated games. And that's the only thing that matters to them.

see my last post.