[Dog Gone]

But the cost of a CD compares very favorably with the cost of a movie or sports ticket - VERY favorably.

So does just about everything else.

[Dark Knight]

The cost of a CD really doesn't compare favorably with othe stuff. CD content has been generally bad with one or two songs on an album being acceptable product to the consumers. Compare that with DVD content of something like Lord of the Rings. People want to pay more for an expanded version.

The music industry stopped selling singles for the most part. Why? Albums sales suffered because the cuts left were doo doo.

DVD content of most popular movies, involves tens of millions of dollars of production costs (and sometimes hundreds of millions). What CD has a real production cost of over a million?

DVDs and CD's have about the same cost. DVD is a healthy market, and CD music is not.

The music industry made a conscious decision to forgo tech and use courts instead. RIAA has been doing it for years. The technology has overridden them.

In any case, and I cannot stress this enough, the RIAA gets a cut off any CD Writer or CD media you buy, just because of the copyright violation problem with the new media. In other words, we pay them in advance for the business lost WHETHER OR NOT THE MEDIA IS USED FOR COPYRIGHT VIOLATION.

The RIAA is trying to double dip, the file sharing is already paid for.

DK