 andunn
join:2001-09-06
Linn Creek, MO | reply to CitizenX9
Re: I will ALWAYS rip you off Mr. Michael Greene CD companies continue to blame rising costs of their products due to piracy, but as I remember it CD's were always highly priced. Sure they lose money, but it's also an excuse for CD companies to raise their prices. Before CD burners were available to the public at an affordable price CD's were expensive. What a shocker  |
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 ArchAngel21xWaiting For iPhone 5Premium
join:2001-10-28
Lincoln, NE | True true. Yet another reason not to pirate. It just gives the music companies an excuse to raise prices again. Good post.
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dbarc
join:2000-01-22
Fort Wayne, IN
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said by andunn:
CD companies continue to blame rising costs of their products due to piracy, but as I remember it CD's were always highly priced. Sure they lose money, but it's also an excuse for CD companies to raise their prices. Before CD burners were available to the public at an affordable price CD's were expensive. What a shocker
You're absolutely correct. When CD's were first released, there were many complaints that they were overpriced. The response at the time was that there were only a few CD manufacturing facilities and that as soon as more were online the prices would be down and more inline with vinyl. I believe it went so far as Congressional hearings on it at the time. Of course, the prices never did come down. The critics of the time were pointing more to effectively the monopoly status of the few record companies controlling the industry and market. It seems that it's possibly time to review that situation more as the Napster lawyers are attempting to do in their case. At least this time, for the internet version of their exercise in control, it's in the courts looking at it and not simply being a contribution money hungry Congressional committee that can be lobbied with $$$$.
I'll add that I didn't use Napster or whatever is new these days, and think copyrights are valid, but the labels are treading on thin water hopefully. I personally think they should go back and look at the old payola thing as well. It seems, from what I've read, that's no different now than it was before other than they pay middlemen to do their work to pay the stations for play time.
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