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Re:GOG.com shut down by RodgerTheGreat on Sunday September 19, 2010 @08:25PM (#1707318)
...Or buy them used on Amazon or Ebay, just to name two places. I've never bought this false dichotomy for justifying piracy.
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Re:GOG.com shut down by mambodog on Sunday September 19, 2010 @11:17PM (#1707631)
Isn't the point of the site that most of these games are difficult to get any other way (ie, even from Amazon & eBay)?

When a game is that old, and difficult to get hold of, I think eventually it is no longer 'piracy', and instead becomes 'preserving our history/culture'.

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Re:GOG.com shut down by aw3c2 on Monday September 20, 2010 @05:58AM (#1708307)
New games are more and more locked in ways that make selling/buying used copies impossible.
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Re:GOG.com shut down by gscott on Sunday September 19, 2010 @09:19PM (#1707410)
Game publishers consider used sales the same as piracy.
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Re:GOG.com shut down by hugh3 on Sunday September 19, 2010 @11:12PM (#1707616)
Really? And they haven't sued Gamestop yet?
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Re:GOG.com shut down by gscott on Sunday September 19, 2010 @11:31PM (#1707671)
Used games chaps the industries hide http://www.neowin.net/news/used-games-worse-than-piracy-says...

Also developers are now including 1 time activiation codes where you say end up reselling it the new user will have to reactivate it for some all of all of the features, for a fee.

http://360.kombo.com/article.php?artid=18941

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