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by adambyrtek 5746 days ago
The funny thing is that nobody will benefit from that. The site is down, so honest people who were willing to spend a few bucks on their favorite games will now have to look for them on The Pirate Bay.
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...Or buy them used on Amazon or Ebay, just to name two places. I've never bought this false dichotomy for justifying piracy.
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'.

New games are more and more locked in ways that make selling/buying used copies impossible.
Game publishers consider used sales the same as piracy.
Really? And they haven't sued Gamestop yet?
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