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UK Music Industry Stomps on Imported CD Seller
MungoBBQ writes "The Independent is one among the many news sources reporting that BPI, the British equivalent of RIAA, has made a large online retailer of CDs, DVDs and games, comply with their demands to raise prices by 2 pounds per CD sold on their website. The retailer, CD-WOW, based in Hong-Kong, agreed to raise their prices offered to their UK customers to avoid legal battles. CD-WOW caters to many other European countries, where people have been enjoying their cheaper CD prices. However, it can now be assumed that other national recording industry organizations will make CD-WOW and other online retailers jack up their prices to 'better compare' with the local prices in each country."
I used to live in Montreal but I moved back to England in '98. I was shocked at how much money British people waste on high priced stuff. The British attitude is easy come, easy go, perhaps because when all the money's gone, they have the welfare state to bail them out (dole, NHS, national pension plan, income supplements etc.) So they don't have any incentive not to spend it all whatever the cost. What goes around comes around though. They don't organise their businesses particularly effectively and they don't work hard, so margins are less despite higher prices. Disorganisation is a British trait, and they are very proud of it. Also, although they don't work hard or effectively, they do put in a lot of hours, so they don't have a lot of time to quibble about a few quid when they go shopping. That's my guess, anyway. Good luck to them, though - it's a lot of fun to live here.
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Stop buying commercial CDs. Most of it is crap anyways (Britney Spears anyone?).
What kind of passifist bullshit is this? You're saying it's wrong to kill someone who is attempting to kill your family? According to whom?
Killing is not wrong when the person being killed deserved it.
Ok, but this still doesn't make any sense. Why would you do something that's wrong at all? Committing a morally wrong act is evil. However, I don't see protecting yourself from harm (caused by a person intent on committing a serious wrong) as wrong; it's actually a right since it saves the innocent. Therefore, if it's not wrong to protect yourself, even if that means having to kill some criminal, then killing the criminal isn't wrong. Unfortunate maybe, but not wrong.
Therefore, killing is not wrong all the time.
I think you have the meaning of the term "wrong" confused.