rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | On another site I read where MS may allow used games to install on a different XBOX provided the original owner removed it AND you pay them some sort of "activation" fee. In practice this means you would buy a used game disc for $10 and then have to pay MS another $10 to install it. The article suggested the used game disc market prices would probably drop since folks know the disc itself is useless without paying for it to be activated on their system. The article suggested Microsoft and the company that created the game would share the activation fee. The article suggested it's a way for them to profit off the used market.
In some respects this seems like the government. When a corporation makes money, it pays corporate taxes. Then it turns around and pays a dividend and shareholders pay income/capital gains taxes. When shareholders spend that money to buy something, they get taxed again (sales tax). Depending on what they buy (house, car, boat, etc.), they may then get taxed again each year they own it (property taxes).
Microsoft ~= government??? |
