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| Piracy? In a nutshell, copyright infringement is stealing. However the problem would draw a lot more sympathy for the RIAA if they were not screwing everyone in the bargain.
Music CDs (even years old reproductions) command a 15-25USD pricetag. How they get their prices is beyond me. I picked up a new Slayer CD for 15USD last night, and their old stuff was the same price. Decade of aggression (2CD) was 25USD. This was at BestBuy. Other vendors wanted 20USD-25USD for any of their collection, the dual CD was almost 30. My girlfriend picked out 2CDs that I cannot stand, costing 15 and 20 USD EACH. I would LIKE to support the artists who make the music, however they get next to nothing of that 20USD CD you bought. Furthermore those CDs cost less than a single penny to make. Add in the packaging and youre looking at maybe a cent or two each.
There is no rhyme or reason to the prices of CDs. It seems everyone is price fixing as it is very rare in my area to see any vendor sell any CD for less than 15USD. Some are 11, 12, or 13 but those are "sales". Old music is same priced as new music, across all genres generally the only vairance is if you have multiple CDs in the packaging.
I get disgusted because the CDs are overpriced AND the people who made the music get diddly squat from it. The RIAA is raking in the cash hand over fist. THEY are making phenomenal profits from this because they HOLD A MONOPOLY. No one can stop them from price fixing, and they continue to do it.
So you know what, filetraders ARE STEALING but who are they really stealing from? Impoverished artists who get next to nothing from the royalties? No they are stealing from the pricks in the RIAA who certainly arent hurting for money. And if you look at the large picture, anyone whos bought a few overpriced CDs is only stealing the money back from the RIAA who doesnt like it. Thats why they are suing the individuals. | |
| *cough* but it so easy to make a copy unlike hardware you can't replicate that. Can you just get a copy machine to do that to make two exact same thing like on media.
I doubt. Much more cost effective, you can do it a million times and it cost you nothing 
This is getting stupid because anything in life that involves money mean you can't even if it so easy to do!
They just want to control our life, just want to make us slaves into evil corporation. Listen to me, why do you work so much for so little yet you pay taxes while the corporation are exempt. So again think of it as of little benefit to you if your freedom is restricted to only for your own uses. This copyright is BS and makes people stupid at the same time as they fall prey to their scam.
[text was edited by author 2003-08-16 11:14:32] | |
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