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Posted September 11, 2012
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SirPrimalform: Of course they don't. I'd be surprised if anyone thought they did get money for second hand sales to be honest.
I was just covering my bases. There's always someone. >.>

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roninnogitsune: No, the big difference is that one is Illegal and one is Legal. Piracy is creating an illegal copy without consent. Second hand sales do not create new copies and is something that you have a right to do as owner of your copy or license. I'm sure you don't want that to change and would have to give a company money whenever you sold a car or book or whatever.
But with new age technology, nothing's stopping you from legally creating a backup of that game, legally selling it back to Gamestop, and keeping your technically legal backup, thus creating a copy.

What's more, with a little work, your 360/PS3/Wii can even PLAY that legal backup!

Anyways, this is off-topic, so this is the last thing I'm posting about that.
Post edited September 11, 2012 by johnki
Posted September 11, 2012
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Psyringe: I wouldn't recommend trying to give a GamersGate account to another person. Trading accounts is not supported and may get you into trouble.
But what are they going to do? Delete your account?
Posted September 11, 2012
We're not GamersGate support. Ask them.
Posted September 11, 2012
Give the account details to another guy and tell him to change the account details.

Done.

Why is this thread still alive?
Posted September 11, 2012
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TheJoe: We're not GamersGate support. Ask them.
I did .http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/so_i_decided_to_delete_my_gamersgate_account/post24

I keep my account .
Post edited September 11, 2012 by ne_zavarj
Posted September 11, 2012
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ne_zavarj: ...
Q: Is it possible to gift away my account ?
A: The account is not giftable like the games are, no .
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That's pretty much what account binding is designed for. Books, movies, games, music, they want to cash each one person separately. I hate it because I remember how it was different. But what can I alone do...
Posted September 11, 2012
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johnki: Ironic that the only differences between piracy and secondhand game sales at places like Gamestop is that the company selling secondhand games gets to profit without giving the rightsholders any money (before anyone argues this: many a company have said they don't make a cent on secondhand sales, and that's the whole reason the "EA Online Pass" thing was conceived), and do so legally.

Seriously, I think secondhand game sales at Gamestop might actually be higher in number than copies pirated for most of those games.
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roninnogitsune: No, the big difference is that one is Illegal and one is Legal. Piracy is creating an illegal copy without consent. Second hand sales do not create new copies and is something that you have a right to do as owner of your copy or license. I'm sure you don't want that to change and would have to give a company money whenever you sold a car or book or whatever.
^ That.

It's more touchy with DRM-free digital goods, because nothing would prevent you from keeping a copy before passing along the account to someone else (the temptation would be too great for many), but I think passing along an account in your will should be cosher (you can't keep a copy for yourself, you're dead).

I'm not stating this from the standpoint of our current legal framework, but basing myself on common sense (upon which our legal framework ought be built if it wants to be respected).

Games lacking a necessary server component (which the creators of the game must be willing to maintain) to function are really sold as a product, not a service and ought to be treated as such.

Again, common sense.

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ne_zavarj: ...
Q: Is it possible to gift away my account ?
A: The account is not giftable like the games are, no .
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Trilarion: That's pretty much what account binding is designed for. Books, movies, games, music, they want to cash each one person separately. I hate it because I remember how it was different. But what can I alone do...
For the will part, you can silently pass the account info (email info, password, etc) to someone in your will (don't explicitly state it, just request that some letter with the relevant info be passed along to whoever you want to give the account to and request that the letter should only be opened and read by them) and they can't do jack shit to stop you, that's what you can do.
Post edited September 11, 2012 by Magnitus
Posted September 12, 2012
In Europe you are allowed to resell software licenses, depending on some conditions. We had a discussion about it:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/europe_it_is_now_allowed_to_sell_used_software_cd_and_digital/page1
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