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Originally Posted by onelifecrisis
Whether OSP will actually prevent piracy at all is another issue. I don't think it'll stop outright piracy at all. But it will prevent resale and it'll also prevent lending/swapping/borrowing amongst friends, so maybe those things alone will be enough to decrease those "lost sales" by a few percent (and increase revenues by ten times that amount). Time will tell.
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That's actually something I'd not considered, however that makes me even stronger on my position.
Intentionally stopping people from lending/swapping/borrowing a product they've purchased is an infringement of many countries consumer rights, and they seem to want to use that to recoup their lost revenue because they can't combat piracy...
That's worse than the punishment of legitimate customers by "you can only play when we say you can".
Now we're expected to pay for the pirates copies as well?
