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Originally Posted by flashmozzg
I can't see how buying used games is diffirent from piracy for game company.
Anyway PS1 is so old that you can download all the games you want without fear (if you won't try to sell them ofcourse, goodluck with that). Also if you really want to be "legal", just delete the roms after 1 day.
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Buying and selling used games is not piracy, because legally,
physical possession of the authorized media gives you the rights to use it, and the DMCA contains exclusions allowing you to use the contents of your media for personal use even if you decrypt it and play it on an unauthorized device (including an emulator). By legal definition, that is not piracy.
Of course, the recording industry would LOVE to outlaw selling used media, so that they do not have to compete with already sold copies of their own product. But if we allowed that, then other industries would like to eliminate competetion with the secondary (used product) market by getting laws passed to ban private individuals from selling the stuff they bought. This is what "subscription" services are all about, which basically lease stuff to us instead of selling it to us. For example, Microsoft has wanted to release a SUBSCRIPTION version of their computer operating system to us for a long time now, where they can try to force us to purchase a new license periodically from them, just so we can continue to use the product that we "bought" from them. IMHO, it is the media companies that are trying to be blood-thirsty pirates, trying to steal money out of our pockets
by trying to "legally" steal away our "fair use" rights and make us buy stuff again on new media formats that we already own on older media.
It would be interesting to see if Sony agrees with your opinion about what is okay to do with their old games. The idea that it is okay to steal something for a day as long as you return it (or destroy all copies of it) within one day is "interesting". I would love to hear what your judge has to say about that excuse if you apply it to something that you "borrowed" from a store.