You dont buy a game, you purchase a LICENSE from the rights holder to use that game in the manner and conditions stated by the license agreement.
The used games market is making tons of money from products someone else made and owns the rights to, without compensating them in any way. Is it strange that the publishers are displeased?
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No. At this point in time, if I buy a console title, I purchase a copy of the game itself. There is no EULA, no enforceable license; I own that copy of the game.
Try to keep up, won't you? This discussion began with Sony's rumored PS3 license BS.
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There is a EULA. If not directly to the customer than to the seller.
The PS3 license is BS because the EULA thing is already in effect, like Alanshu said a few posts back(that it's already in effect, not the BS part).
When you buy a game, you are acquiring the right to use it.
Basically, if someone from the publisher knocks on your door asking for the game, you should be able to show it to him at any time after you acquired the right to use it.
And legally, if I'm not mistaken, the only way to get rid of your game is to give it back to the publisher directly. You have no right to sell it back to anyone.