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Sure. But there's a line somewhere between differentiated pricing and things like prohibiting users to give/sell keys cross regions or lobbying for shutting dow

Sure. But there's a line somewhere between differentiated pricing and things like prohibiting users to give/sell keys cross regions or lobbying for shutting down exchange platforms where this happens. To draw on the bakery allegory in another comment, I think we can agree it would b nonsensical for the bakery giving away free leftover bread to homeless people to put controls in place that prohibits them from sharing their bread with others.

shados 7y ago
If its leftover then its lower quality. That's fine. But in this case its the exact same product. If I'm a bakery owner and I give fresh out of the oven bread for cheaper/free to homeless folks, and I watch them turn around and sell it to my own customers, well, that freagin sucks.
- Legogris 7y ago
  Regardless of how sucky you would feel about it, do you think that would warrant limiting the rights of the people you gave the bread?
  - shados 7y ago
    Regardless of how I feel about it, the options are: - Keep giving bread and lose an indeterminate amount of business from my target audience - Limit the rights of the people who I gave the bread to - Stop giving bread at all. If #2 is not possible, then it's either "I take a business hit for trying to provide a service to the less fortunate" or "Fuck the less fortunate". So now with that said, how I feel about it? Yeah, I think being able to limit the rights of the people I give the bread to is the best of all options. A real world example of this is low income housing, where the recipient isn't allowed to sublet their place, because that would be all sorts of fucked up. Obviously a game key is not anywhere near as big of a deal, but it is a similar principle if we want businesses to be able to open up to as many markets as possible (not just for their own sakes)
    - SkyBelow 7y ago
      Are you limiting rights through the transaction as a sort of contract or doing so through government enforcement of all people? If the former case, then option 2 does appear to be the best option. If the latter, then option 2 appears to be worse than option 1.
      - shados 7y ago
        Its a bit grayer than that. In this case generally it is option 1 (transaction contract when the key is originally given or sold). But then a third party comes in and makes a marketplace out of people breaking their contract and how you deal with THAT. Its basically the Airbnb scenario.

shados 7y ago

If its leftover then its lower quality. That's fine. But in this case its the exact same product. If I'm a bakery owner and I give fresh out of the oven bread for cheaper/free to homeless folks, and I watch them turn around and sell it to my own customers, well, that freagin sucks.

Legogris 7y ago
Regardless of how sucky you would feel about it, do you think that would warrant limiting the rights of the people you gave the bread?
- shados 7y ago
  Regardless of how I feel about it, the options are: - Keep giving bread and lose an indeterminate amount of business from my target audience - Limit the rights of the people who I gave the bread to - Stop giving bread at all. If #2 is not possible, then it's either "I take a business hit for trying to provide a service to the less fortunate" or "Fuck the less fortunate". So now with that said, how I feel about it? Yeah, I think being able to limit the rights of the people I give the bread to is the best of all options. A real world example of this is low income housing, where the recipient isn't allowed to sublet their place, because that would be all sorts of fucked up. Obviously a game key is not anywhere near as big of a deal, but it is a similar principle if we want businesses to be able to open up to as many markets as possible (not just for their own sakes)
  - SkyBelow 7y ago
    Are you limiting rights through the transaction as a sort of contract or doing so through government enforcement of all people? If the former case, then option 2 does appear to be the best option. If the latter, then option 2 appears to be worse than option 1.
    - shados 7y ago
      Its a bit grayer than that. In this case generally it is option 1 (transaction contract when the key is originally given or sold). But then a third party comes in and makes a marketplace out of people breaking their contract and how you deal with THAT. Its basically the Airbnb scenario.