Comment by account42

> Physical media can have resale value. A finished game can be sold, a film can be traded, and a book can be lent. Digital licenses are usually locked to an account and non-transferable, so the purchase price typically cannot be recovered through resale.

More importantly, the resale market acts as competition to the first market sale, lowering prices over time as supply accumulates. Without re-sale publishers can just never lower prices for old digital products or even increase them with inflation or more. This is an underappreciated way in which the copyright deal has been worsened.