What I want to know is when will the outrageous imbalance in what media is worth versus its cost come to equalize. I know it is a luxury, but with the enormous selection of often very similar sounding music (or similar movies for that matter - go Hollywood) out there why should it be so expensive. I'm hoping that the free availability of digital media will force the respective industries to their knees and make them realize that they cannot support such a top heavy system. The lifestyles of (popular) musicians etc and the money involved in production is unrealistic and should not continue. Heres hoping non-physical based media will do what cheap Chinese imports do force intense competition.
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Where I pay around 60 times what Americans pay per gig (at a whopping 384kb/s) and I have a really cheap service provider :)
What I want to know is what is that shiny thing in the panorama image vertically in line with the beginning of the solar panel on the left.
What I want to know is when will the outrageous imbalance in what media is worth versus its cost come to equalize. I know it is a luxury, but with the enormous selection of often very similar sounding music (or similar movies for that matter - go Hollywood) out there why should it be so expensive. I'm hoping that the free availability of digital media will force the respective industries to their knees and make them realize that they cannot support such a top heavy system. The lifestyles of (popular) musicians etc and the money involved in production is unrealistic and should not continue. Heres hoping non-physical based media will do what cheap Chinese imports do force intense competition.