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To: buccaneer81

Everyone is downloading free songs because they refuse to lower CD prices. The other day I walked into an FYE Store and saw NORMAL CD prices at $18.99. This is robbery. Why would anyone pay for a CD which might have 1 good song?


22 posted on 08/24/2009 10:39:08 PM PDT by FreeManWhoCan ("By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.")
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To: FreeManWhoCan
Everyone is downloading free songs because they refuse to lower CD prices.

That's a huge part of it. As long as it is cheaper and more convenient to pirate music instead of buying a copy for each and every piece of audio equipment you own, people will do the former.

Piracy is a de facto competitor to legitimate music retailers, whether the RIAA member companies like it or not. If people are still pirating songs even when they cost 99 cents a track, it means that these people do not believe the music is worth even that much, regardless of how much it cost to produce it.

27 posted on 08/25/2009 3:45:14 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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