Are you saying it is OK to steal things if the price is higher than someone is willing to pay?
I have the solution! If you have a cd burner, download what you want and then send the artist $4-$5. I have read where the artist gets a maximum of 14% of the cd sales. I think that is just wrong. This way, you can listen to what you want first, and buy what you want for a lot less while giving the artist(s), who really deserve the $, more for each cd. The only loser is the RIAA. Here are a couple of websites with good info...
http://monkeyfist.com/articles/650
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/
Are you saying it is OK to steal things if the price is higher than someone is willing to pay?
No, he is saying that when you charge more than people are willing to pay, your sales decline.
What we're saying is that it's OK for us to buy fewer CD's when the price is too high, at least until the Hollings-Berman Mandatory CD Purchase Act passes.
As far as file-trading goes: have you ever actually fired up a peer-ro-peer program and run it? You have to do a significant amount of fiddling to get one of these things going, and far more trouble to find what you want. If CD releases cost $5 instead of $15-20, the whole file-trading scene would vanish overnight.