Submitted by ZippyDSMlee - March 3, 2008 at 3:39 pm -050066.11.246.27
E. Zachary Knight
neither dose paying 50$ for a horrible game that can not be returned , having one side being SOL dose not make things fair or right.

ya and how many games are republished physically?
or digitally for that matter I buy it once I am never going to by it again and on top of that I wont bother buying different versions(PS2,Xbox,PC,ect) of it unless I love the product.


As for the free trade, you must remember what the old CP/IP law was made for to keep profits in the hands of the publishers for a short amount of time (under 20 years), by making old stuff free to consume and trade the industry can focus on remakes and new CP/IP, by making CP/IP last 100 years the only people to make most of the profit is not the creators of it but the company that bought those rights, content creators get the rough end of the stick NO MATTER WHATS DONE, better to side with the consumer than the industry who's raping both sides.

Downloads do no equal sales so don't even go there, and new digi distro media will have more polish on it than the old thus making the new worth buying to the burnt of consumers.

In the end you can not make a thirsty man drink at the desert oasis in the middle of a shower, it dose not matter if downloaders buy or not because they are cheap they will wind up buying used anyway which means your arguments over supporting the content creators are in vain and this is the crutch of the downloading/share argument there are not enough people who are willing to buy new within the 3-8 month time frame needed to save a title much less profit off it.

The 5 years then free to trade idea thats been rotting in my brain is nothing more than a expansion of fair use, as for downloading I wouldn't mind a tax on computers and burning media if the gray area was left alone but lets be frank the media mafia wants you to buy everything from them and not let you transcode, backup or ANYTHING without paying them first and the average content creator is not going to see a dime of that protection racket money.

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