That's fine. Even if they could design a perfectly copy-proof cd, it wouldn't matter. More people are learning about new music through the internet than through their junk corporate radio now anyway. They are just shooting themselves in the foot.
If record companies want to thrive, they should encourage people to share music. It's free advertising. And they should drop the price of a cd to $10. If they don't do that, eventually they will actually start to lose money.
If record companies want to thrive, they should encourage people to share music. It's free advertising. And they should drop the price of a cd to $10. If they don't do that, eventually they will actually start to lose money. They already do. They have for decades. It's called radio.
These same companies annually spend millions of dollars promoting their product on the radio for free public consumption. Recording music from the radio is legal. Calling a station to request a song, then recording the song when it's played, is legal.
The only difference between this process and P2P sharing is the technology, not the activity itself. Why is one method actively supported by the recording industry and legally upheld by the courts, yet the other is criminal?