i had my professor comment on the 2nd hand book market once
he told us not to sell books but to just give them to people
doesn't seem like he was very fond of the 2nd hand market and considering it's more widely available, that was more of a threat to him as an author
"Let's put it this way, most companies make a product to sell..."
all you're talking about is the legal aspect, I said aside from that... it's still justifying robbing the developers profit either way, even if someone is losing the original.. the key point is the developer is not getting anything other than the original and there are multiple pirates buying originals as well. yes there are more pirates copies than 2nd hand copies(i already made this point so you're just repeating me), but 2nd hand copies are distributed on a larger scale to the mass market without any need for a hacked system. if only there was a correlation of pirates copies to potential sales.
on the bright side, think about all the old sports games the retailers just have to throw in the trash.. gotta love the 2nd hand retail market, 1 million copies of games nobody want anymore taking up a majority of the shelf space
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