Gabe made his billions by violating the First Sale Doctrine which was ruled by the Supreme Court and passed into law over a hundred years ago.
He was one of the original tech bros: Let’s do something illegal and add “on a computer” to the process to claim the law doesn’t apply.
I use Steam, but I’m well aware that I used to be able to buy old video games at a huge discount before Steam sidestepped the law with “it’s not a game it’s a steam key”.
Interesting!! Good illustration of my point, I think… Basically yeah, he created the circumstances needed to funnel into his own account basically everything that would have been the whole secondary market for games?
Come to think about it, if Bill Gates did that, oh boy we wouldn’t hear the end of it. If Jeff Bezos, it’d be rightfully put up there along with removing 1984 copies from libraries. Okay, get this, the Xbox 1 was panned before launch because it tried to get rid of the used games market, way after half life guy successfully did it.
Gabe made his billions by violating the First Sale Doctrine which was ruled by the Supreme Court and passed into law over a hundred years ago.
He was one of the original tech bros: Let’s do something illegal and add “on a computer” to the process to claim the law doesn’t apply.
I use Steam, but I’m well aware that I used to be able to buy old video games at a huge discount before Steam sidestepped the law with “it’s not a game it’s a steam key”.
Interesting!! Good illustration of my point, I think… Basically yeah, he created the circumstances needed to funnel into his own account basically everything that would have been the whole secondary market for games?
Come to think about it, if Bill Gates did that, oh boy we wouldn’t hear the end of it. If Jeff Bezos, it’d be rightfully put up there along with removing 1984 copies from libraries. Okay, get this, the Xbox 1 was panned before launch because it tried to get rid of the used games market, way after half life guy successfully did it.
These double standards are killing me.