2011-07-15, 11:11 PM
This would be like the automotive manufacturer requiring you to buy a new key from them every time a used car gets re-purchased.
It's absolutely absurd.
Tangible property is self limiting, it may very well be illegal for them to restrict the transfer of "real" property in this manner and profit off it repeatedly.
I'll look forward to the class action suit on this one because their only defense is to claim that rights to connect to special content are non transferrable, but those rights have no value to the 'original owner' if you give the physical game up so making them non-transferrable is just a needless consumer gouge to make up for their own inability to make a product people would consider buying retail.
It's absolutely absurd.
Tangible property is self limiting, it may very well be illegal for them to restrict the transfer of "real" property in this manner and profit off it repeatedly.
I'll look forward to the class action suit on this one because their only defense is to claim that rights to connect to special content are non transferrable, but those rights have no value to the 'original owner' if you give the physical game up so making them non-transferrable is just a needless consumer gouge to make up for their own inability to make a product people would consider buying retail.
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.