[Arkinsaw]

The music industry has already deterred me by producing no new music I want to steal. Or buy.

True. The only things I have downloaded are things that nobody would buy or even put on the radio any more. The few things I have downloaded have been out of print for years and will certainly never come back. If they hadn't been available for download and HAD been available in stores I would never actually pay $15 for them.

I pretty much listened to them once or twice for the reminiscing effect and then never played them again. Its basically the same effect as choosing which old song to hear on the radio. How much money are they actually losing by me downloading Johnny Horton's "Sink the Bismarck" to listen to one time?

None. But they are willing to jack me around, sue me, or destroy my computer. Sure does not make me want to sympathize with them.

Its obvious that they are idiots. They are so wedded to the $15.00 CD business model and can't understand why their sales are going down. They were flabbergasted by the success of Apple's iTunes project. They fought VHS tapes, they fought recordable cassettes, they worried about DAT, they worried about CD's at first, they were reluctant about going to DVD, they fight every new technology and seem absolutely clueless and incapable of responding to a new emerging market or business model or seeing any potential beyond what they are doing at the moment.

They've had to be dragged kicking and screaming into every new market by the technology people.

[george wythe]

They fought VHS tapes, they fought recordable cassettes, they worried about DAT, they worried about CD's at first, they were reluctant about going to DVD, they fight every new technology

History repeats itself.

Just in the last decade, I've seen the cat-n-mouse game played in the streets of Mexico City when the local cops busting vendors for selling copyrighted material.

The first time I visited Mexico City back in 1990, the street vendors were offering bootlegged copies of audio and video cassettes.

When I went back in 1997, they were selling bootlegged CDs. Then in 2000, both CDs and DVDS were available for sale with movies sometimes not even available on the US.

How did the movie and music industries survived the wholesale bootlegging?

Apparently, these execs don't realize that their Chicken Little predictions have previously failed to materialize.

[killjoy]

Its obvious that they are idiots. They are so wedded to the $15.00 CD business model and can't understand why their sales are going down. They were flabbergasted by the success of Apple's iTunes project. They fought VHS tapes, they fought recordable cassettes, they worried about DAT, they worried about CD's at first, they were reluctant about going to DVD, they fight every new technology and seem absolutely clueless and incapable of responding to a new emerging market or business model or seeing any potential beyond what they are doing at the moment.

Why do DVD movies cost about the same as the CD music soundtrack that goes along with it? I remember back when movies were first released on VHS and they went for approximately $100. I don't know how many people actually bought them but I remember having a large number of movies on VHS that I taped off of HBO, Showtime, and other movie channels. I have bought many DVDs because they are affordable.

What has happened with music CDs? Unlike movies who's price keeps dropping, the price of music CDs keeps going up. It is no wonder people don't buy as many as before and have switched to downloading songs insted. If they would drop the price of music CDs to about $6 each, they would put an end to online swapping. They just don't get it, do they?