[MacDorcha]

you do realize it costs money to make a concert in the first place right? you dont see money from it until the tickets are bought, and then you are compinsated for your investments. as for endorsements, that alone wouldnt keep michael jordan rich. he's living off o savings and is supplementing it with the nike stuff. you have to have the money to make either of those into a profit, you dont have to have that much to make a great selling sample cd, which blooms into a contract,which they would then get paid for. i know plenty of up-start musicians to know how that would work. you arent just ripping off the companies when you pirate music, you're ripping off your band, your self, and the entire idea of a free economy. it's nice to see you're thinking though, it shows you are trying to come up with the correct answer.

[Not Insane]

How many times are you allowed to watch a movie when you rent it? The answer is of course, "as many times as you want." Did you know that in the 80's there was a type of videotape being developed that would count how many times a video was watched and you would then be charged for each time you watched it. If you bypassed the counter you would have been "ripping off" the rental store.

It was not worth it to them, partly because it violated the unwritten rule of our video rental culture, that it was assumed that you could watch a rented movie as many times as you want. The first store to implement this policy would have gone bankrupt unless they charged less than 1/3 what everybody else charged.

Same with the music indurstry. Technology has changed the culture. Want to sell CD's? They better be no more than 1/4 the cost of DVD's since they offer less than 1/4 the value.

Tell me, which cost more to make, The Two Towers, or Emenems latest album?

You start gouging customers, and you ARE writing your own businesses death warrant.

Why don't people make their own clothing?