I sleep with my PS2 every night. I have actually been plotting to form a secret cult of sony, which they have been instructing me to create for them through the strange frequenceys projected into my cornia whenever I play vice city on my rear projection TV. Didn't you ever wonder why all game instruction booklettes not only advise, but threaten almost against playing any console on a rear projection TV?
Playstation is my crack, and the good folks at Sony are my crack dealers.
I think the RIAA is stupid for its militant stance on the destruction of a technology that could have saved their industry from their own extinction, and personally, I think the music industry deserves to be pirated, as it costs aprx. $0.17 to completly manufacture a compact disc (including booklet, case, and other factors.) From each $15.99 unit sold, the artist usually only recieves $0.04 per unit sold in royalties. And as far as the retailers are concerned, they have no choice but to charge that $15.99, as they buy the units for about 20% to 35% less than the consumer pays, which I assume is the general markup of pretty much everything these days. So if the retailer pays $12.79, less $0.04 to the artist and another $0.17 for manufacturing costs, they gross aprx. $12.58 per unit sold. My point is this: I have been paying these prices for years; they aren't in any financial difficulty, and the artists themselves aren't making $12.50 off a cd. This justifies the "piracy" of the music industry, in my mind, so long as you aren't bootlegging. Fight fire with fire, I say.
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I sleep with my PS2 every night. I have actually been plotting to form a secret cult of sony, which they have been instructing me to create for them through the strange frequenceys projected into my cornia whenever I play vice city on my rear projection TV. Didn't you ever wonder why all game instruction booklettes not only advise, but threaten almost against playing any console on a rear projection TV? Playstation is my crack, and the good folks at Sony are my crack dealers.
I think the RIAA is stupid for its militant stance on the destruction of a technology that could have saved their industry from their own extinction, and personally, I think the music industry deserves to be pirated, as it costs aprx. $0.17 to completly manufacture a compact disc (including booklet, case, and other factors.) From each $15.99 unit sold, the artist usually only recieves $0.04 per unit sold in royalties. And as far as the retailers are concerned, they have no choice but to charge that $15.99, as they buy the units for about 20% to 35% less than the consumer pays, which I assume is the general markup of pretty much everything these days. So if the retailer pays $12.79, less $0.04 to the artist and another $0.17 for manufacturing costs, they gross aprx. $12.58 per unit sold. My point is this: I have been paying these prices for years; they aren't in any financial difficulty, and the artists themselves aren't making $12.50 off a cd. This justifies the "piracy" of the music industry, in my mind, so long as you aren't bootlegging. Fight fire with fire, I say.