There is nothing wrong about not paying companies when you buy used shit. That's like giving Ikea a dollar everytime you turn on the lamp you bought at Fred's garage sale 6 years ago. Or giving Honda a dollar every time you bought that used Civic off your friend in 2004. Does any of that make sense? Of course not. If I go to Goodwill and get a Hungry Hungry Hippos board game I don't owe Parker Brothers anything. I think if Sony or MS actually tried to implement such a feature it would be halted by the supreme court.

Video game companies are rolling in money--more than Hollywood--and yet they pay their employees shitty wages and then price-gouge the people actually buying their product. It's the sole reason I never once recommended people to buy an Xbox 360 when you could be playing the same--and more often than not better--games online with the PS3 for free. The reason they get away with it is that video games are addictive and their audience is easily tricked into paying whatever and because two or three companies effectively control the entire industry so they can do whatever they want and no one has any choice. Personally, I don't have any problem with not buying their stuff, I'll have at least one friend eager enough to pony up for it (some of my friends work in game design), and the games I enjoy the most aren't even being made any more anyway.