On 5/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On a related note, if the average CD costs $15 and has 15 tracks, that's > > $1/song if bought legit. Do you all really think the artists would > > appreciate being gypped that $4500 to begin with? > > Why do you immediately presume every downloaded song must have > a pissed-off artist behind it?
Exactly. Rik Wakemen said it best when he said that (and this quote is from memory) "the industry is dealing with a problem they created. If they (music nazis (my term)) had only let cusotmers assemble their own CDs from the label's collection on-line or at a kiosk in a music store then people would not have to download en masse, they could pick the songs they wanted, pay the record companies for those songs, then carry the CD home. The record comapaines were just too closed minded to get past the idea that most people just one one or two songs from a record, they don't want to pay $15.00 for two good songs." Personally, I'd have to agree. And I would happily pay a record company for a collection of songs that are no longer sold. With iTunes I think the record compaines are coming closer to where they need to be, but there is still some work to do. We'll see if they can get it right this time. Just to clarify, I am against outright theft of songs via downloading. But I am also against some bozo in LA who thinks that I'm going to spend $15.00 or more for one good song on a CD. Greg -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
