(13/10/2011 08:31 AM)wethegreenpeople Wrote:  Nothing illegal with that right?

Not to my knowledge, but the companies want him to purchase a new copy and don't like people reselling like that.

(13/10/2011 08:31 AM)wethegreenpeople Wrote:  Also... the other with with pysical media, is you can trade it in. Beat the game fast, then trade it in. Can't do that with DLC.

I think the various game activation schemes are somewhat designed to prevent this sort of reselling (on PC at least).

I don't think DLC isn't capable of being shared like physical media, per-se, rather, companies are just jumping aboard it as a platform to enforce DRM.
DRM can be used to limit sharing - for example, if you bought a download-only game, it could give you the ability to allow another account to use it for a limited period of time.  Again, being download-only isn't exactly the restriction here, rather, it's what the game studios want you to do with it.

I think it might've been smarter if they just made download-only fairly liberal (for example, the above case of allowing limited sharing of downloaded purchases).  And then gradually remove these benefits in the future.