"Used games sold in game shops such as EB games, gamestop and the like contribute no money to the developers or the publishers. As for Amazon? No clue, but if they do have to pay someone, it will be whoever owns the property rights. Just because the developer/publishers are gone, doesn't mean nobody owns the rights to it." "When the games are initially bought (as in once they are out of the factory) the developers get the money. But after that, it's all between customers and retail.
This is because the intellectual property ownership is for the information on the disk, not the disk/box/manual itself. The user must agree to the License Agreement to install that program"
"You can't put in a contract that you are not allowed to sell the game second hand and it be legally valid in many countries.
In effect second hand games is just like piracy.
1. It means that the developers don't get the money from the people who buy second hand instead of new.
2. It means the new games have to be sold at lower prices"
