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Originally Posted by SeaKing
It reminds me of when some authors/publishers were wanting to a piece of the used book market. i.e. they wanted to add a charge to Amazon, B&N and others' used book prices. The question was then raised about whether Ford and GM would start getting a cut when a guy sold his old pickup truck to someone. That question was basically laughed at and quickly forgotten.
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In video games, the used market is something a lot of the big publishers and such are trying to combat, since they don't see any of the money from the re-sale of the games. I haven't read anything about them lobbying to make used games illegal to sell (Gamestop would go out of business pretty much immediately, I imagine), but there's been murmurs of the next consoles having a built in lock that prevents the system from playing a used game, somehow.