I bought tones of CD-R, but I have not burned one illegal music CD. Decline in record sales have multiple factors, and blank CD have multiple usage; correlating these two doesn't make much sense. If there are $2-4/song online mp3 sales, I would buy them. A lot more people would spend the money to obtain legal copies. The paralell is true for VHS, most people still buy legal copies of VHS.
Class action does not depend on how many people have filed the lawsuit. To have class action status, all you need to show is that their claim can be found in anyone with the same product (e.g. firestone tires, all you need to show is that it has a faulty design, which means all who have the tire will have similar problems). Anyone with similar claim can choose to join them, or opt out of it.
Forget about the paper. Go outside, have fun, hang out with people. Make up some thing for your paper, life is too short to waste your time on this. The fact that you are reading slashdot, and asking questions, tells me that there is a good chance you'll get into a good school already. Do research on things you really want to know, you won't care what you wrote a month from now...
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You can make it html compliant and send it back to them. That will make you a contributor, rather then someone that's just complaining.
I bought tones of CD-R, but I have not burned one illegal music CD. Decline in record sales have multiple factors, and blank CD have multiple usage; correlating these two doesn't make much sense. If there are $2-4/song online mp3 sales, I would buy them. A lot more people would spend the money to obtain legal copies. The paralell is true for VHS, most people still buy legal copies of VHS.
Class action does not depend on how many people have filed the lawsuit. To have class action status, all you need to show is that their claim can be found in anyone with the same product (e.g. firestone tires, all you need to show is that it has a faulty design, which means all who have the tire will have similar problems). Anyone with similar claim can choose to join them, or opt out of it.
Forget about the paper. Go outside, have fun, hang out with people. Make up some thing for your paper, life is too short to waste your time on this. The fact that you are reading slashdot, and asking questions, tells me that there is a good chance you'll get into a good school already. Do research on things you really want to know, you won't care what you wrote a month from now...