so we're the theives? how about charging $18 for a CD that cost under $0.10 to make? What? Production costs you say? What? Still leaves the other $15 unaccounted for. What? Musicians you say? Ok, you probably give them about $5. What? You keep $10 for yourselves. Hmmm, who's the thief here... it's not that people WANT to take money from the musicians at all, no, we're fully prepared to give them what they deserve for their talents. It's that we refuse to give *YOU* bastards ANYTHING for the years of exploitation you propogated. It's your own fault, don't blame the reaction for your action. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Oh, and please begin to worry about your copy-proof CDs. Those will meet a similar fate that the "unhackable" DVD did when DVD met decrypting algorithms. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Come out with "unhackable," and it's hacked within days. Get a clue, man.
Yeah, as a college student, we always seem to get calls in our dorm rooms trying to get us to sign up for a 2.9% APR introductory rate credit card (that QUICKLY escalated to 29.9% or so). One particular evening, someone from one of those annoying companies called asking for my roommate. I frankly told them: "Oh, sorry, he's dead." They appeared to have flunked first grade english because the actual response I recieved was: "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that... I'll try again some other day." Wow. And someone actually HIRED that person and PAID them money to work. Makes the minimum wage for them seem a little over-achieving, doesn't it?
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so we're the theives? how about charging $18 for a CD that cost under $0.10 to make? What? Production costs you say? What? Still leaves the other $15 unaccounted for. What? Musicians you say? Ok, you probably give them about $5. What? You keep $10 for yourselves. Hmmm, who's the thief here... it's not that people WANT to take money from the musicians at all, no, we're fully prepared to give them what they deserve for their talents. It's that we refuse to give *YOU* bastards ANYTHING for the years of exploitation you propogated. It's your own fault, don't blame the reaction for your action. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Oh, and please begin to worry about your copy-proof CDs. Those will meet a similar fate that the "unhackable" DVD did when DVD met decrypting algorithms. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Come out with "unhackable," and it's hacked within days. Get a clue, man.
Yeah, as a college student, we always seem to get calls in our dorm rooms trying to get us to sign up for a 2.9% APR introductory rate credit card (that QUICKLY escalated to 29.9% or so). One particular evening, someone from one of those annoying companies called asking for my roommate. I frankly told them: "Oh, sorry, he's dead." They appeared to have flunked first grade english because the actual response I recieved was: "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that... I'll try again some other day." Wow. And someone actually HIRED that person and PAID them money to work. Makes the minimum wage for them seem a little over-achieving, doesn't it?