This could be very bad news for used games!

With PC games, I'm beginning to wonder why people buy them second-hand anyway.

Since, as said, the developers and publishers don't get any money off you, unless you need it to work online, why not just pirate it anyway?
 
widnesjohn said:
the court ruling is for autocad software that costs thousands of pounds so people using second hand copies are making work and making money without buying a license from the company which means there losing a lot of money i dont think this will move down to games
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It's actually because the copies in the case are cheap copies - they are cheap because the license is restrictive around things like selling second hand.
 
Gzero said:
You think because of the cost of the software itself gives the publisher the right to withhold second hand sales?

In that case, I'm going to build a house and in the sale agreement, make it impossible for it to be sold on or passed on to someone else.

There is a reason that software companies produce new products, they don't make profit of software that they haven't iterated on.
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you dont understand people make money from producing work on the software a lot of money and licenses are for a single user to sell his work and produce you dont make money out of games so its a totaly different thing
 
If they tightened up on the 2nd hand market I would have to be a lot more sensible about my buying techniques, I often will go to the super market (foor food shopping) and buy a game (normally a sequel to a game I enjoyed in the past) only to find its bobbins and end up trading it in a few weeks later, I would not be so free and easy with my money if I knew I was to be stuck with that game for ever.

I doubt they will try and stop games being sold, downloading games is the future.
 
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