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http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/8/25/
Basic treatise: If you buy a publisher's game used then you're not a customer of theirs so they don't really care if the "one time use" code thing pisses you off:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/8/25/words-and-their-meanings/
And boy did the responses start coming in:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/8/25/lets-talk-about/
And now they've started posting some of them (with permission, I'm assuming):
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/8/25/lets-go-phones/
Very interesting...
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This is why publishers don't sue GameStop for selling used games because they know they'd lose.
And whereas EA is doing this multiplayer code bit, the music industry back in the day tried their best tactic - they said they wouldn't ship the new Garth Brooks album to stores that sold used CD's. And before you laugh, this is back when this was a big deal because Garth Brooks was one of the biggest artists in history. It would be like if Activision refused to let GameStop carry Starcraft 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Brooks#1993.E2.80.9394:_In_Pieces
The stores sued back and the album wound up being shipped to them anyway. In a way this EA thing is better because it allows EA to affect the game after the fact.
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