Verno wrote on Mar 26, 2010, 12:46:
On the flip side, do you expect that you should be allowed to resell your theater tickets?
First, that's not the flip side of anything much less my argument. Second, I already can resell theater tickets. They just won't fetch much of a price if the performance for which they are good has passed. Third, theater tickets aren't a copyrighted work (aside from the design of the ticket if it is on paper or a physical media) and they aren't analogous to a video game.
Different forms of copyrighted material need to be treated differently
A video game is no different from music, a book, or a movie in terms of basic consumption by a consumer. Yes, publishers of books, movies, and music could also attach free one-time use offers to their products for additional content, but that doesn't affect the fundamental right of the consumer to resell his purchased copy of such a book, movie, or music. Video games should be no different. The copyright holder of a video game should not be able to attach additional restrictions or prohibitions to such sale or transfer through EULA's or other means. Only copyright law should dictate such limits.