Sony to Charge $20 to Used SOCOM PSP Buyers

[maestintaolius]

So, do we get to call Sony $ony now to go along with calling Microsoft M$?

What I find really irritating about this is my friends and I will occasionally borrow games once in a while and this kind of stuff will pretty much put a stop to that. Oh well, guess I won't be buying a PSP and just stick with my DS lite.

 

[o0RaidR0o]

Man I'm so glad I never got hooked into the console genre. I'm so old school I still play UT99 and have been since '99

 

[nottheking]

[citation][nom]groveborn[/nom](though it's still subject some licensing).[/citation]
Actually, not even that's allowed. In the case of the first-sale doctrine, no licensing whatsoever may be applied. It's partly why the GNU GPL explicitly states that works under that license are not allowed to be charged for; such would make the works sold, rather than licensed.

[citation][nom]startingline13[/nom]they are two completely different things. The fact of the matter is:You can easily copy, and reproduce any form of data (Ex. a game)You cannot easily reproduce a car.[/citation]
Actually, the First Sale Doctrine applies, period. And describing it with a car is actually a faulty analogy; there is actually nothing from legally stopping someone from making an identical copy of said car. Of course, patents on its parts prevent someone from SELLING said "car copy," and likewise, one couldn't use the same name.

But one has to be INCREDIBLY misinformed to think that the First Sale Doctrine doesn't apply to copyrighted works; in fact, it actually applied to copyrighted works FIRST; see Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus, a 1908 case where a publisher tried to enforce a "license" on the books they sold. So that's right; First-Sale has applied to copyrighted works constantly for over a century now.