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Valve started it. Valve invented the "we can violate copyright laws because it's on a computer". Your purchased games will be digital downloads where you have no actual ownership rights.
It is illegal to stop you from reselling copyrighted work you bought at whatever price you can get. Book publishers tried that over 100 years ago and were smacked down by the Supreme Court and followed up with laws passed by Congress.
They did not invent that lol. Music companies did.
Music companies weren't selling games.
In a legal sense, media is media. The laws were established for music before digital games were mainstream, and were then applied to games.