(CD) Pirates Take to the Ocean

rammstein_rulz writes "www.cdfreaks.com reports that asian CD pirates now produce thousands of pirated VCD's on anchored ships in international waters to avoid getting caught. Malaysian marine police have been asked to be on the lookout for pirate ships"

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Re:Piracy on the high seas?

[Alien Being]

"There is no death penalty in any state of the European Union. We are civilized people here."

You sound like pure Eurotrash.

Very few death sentences are actually carried out in the US. From 1930 - 1999, it averaged about 60/year.

The US population consists largely of people who escaped from European monarchies and dictatorships. Joining the EU is low priority and would necessitate changing the name to "American/European Union".

God bless the Atlantic!

Free CD's == No CD's

[reallocate]

If the price of CD's -- or any other product -- drops to zero, people will stop making CD's.

The music business is just that, a business whose purpose is to sell music. If the price of music drops below the cost of music production and distribution, the business will vanish.

Poof, no more CD's to buy or "share".

Re:Free CD's == No CD's

[reallocate]

You're parroting the same lame naive line that others trot out here with regularity.

First of all, by and large, musicians don't make CD's. Music companies make CD's. The CD business is a distribution business. Recording companies' interest in the contents of a CD is limited to whether or not you'll buy it. If they could make money selling white-noise CD's, they would. The Internet provides an opportunity for musicians to market their products directly to comsumers, by providing a substitute distribution system. Few are taking advantage of that fact (perhaps because that segment of the Internet market isn't as large as supposed), while the RIAA certainly recognizes the net's threat to the profits of the recording industry.

Second, there is no necessary relationship between creativity and income. The world is full of struggling musicians who live from hand to mouth, trying to eke out a living. Some of them are struggling because they make music no one wants to hear. Others are struggling because they haven't had a commercial break. Yes, if their sole motive was to make money, they'd probably be lawyers or dentists. But, just like everyone else, given a chance to make money, they'll take it. If they can make money as "crap artists", they'll do just that. It's human nature.