Well not anything. Didn't they expect a barrel full of monkeys to hit this site the day it rolled out? It's not like the media has been talking about it for months now. Oy. Yea gov t! You rock... I hope the same committe that planned this one out wasn't a part of the budget or we're all be screwed and soon like.
Unless music becomes cheaper, illegal copying will go on...
Thank you for looking at this topic logically and not emotionally. Personally I wished for a question related to the price of CD production and how it affects sales and the use of P2P networks.
Recently on/. link it was discussed how the cost of production software has dropped ($495 for the home version or $15,000 for the pro version) but it does not appear to have made its way to consumers. This particular point seems to slip through the cracks along with other obvious points of interest. The cost of burnable CDs has reached levels of 5 cents a CD for the consumer. Shouldn't this cost saving be available to large producers of music?
Personally I'm very selective of CDs now days because the prices have remained high. I still purchase CDs, but only rarely. Do I download songs off the net? Honestly, very rarely. And the songs I've downloaded are often songs I own on CD - I'm too lazy or uninterested in ripping the song. Of course I have found songs I always wanted to record off the radio or have a copy of because I could never justify $18 for one song as most music (in my opinion) is piss poor and often repetative.
Not that I've contributed anything new to the topic, but at least I've gotten my thoughts out. chichichi-a
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Well not anything. Didn't they expect a barrel full of monkeys to hit this site the day it rolled out? It's not like the media has been talking about it for months now. Oy. Yea gov t! You rock... I hope the same committe that planned this one out wasn't a part of the budget or we're all be screwed and soon like.
Thank you for looking at this topic logically and not emotionally. Personally I wished for a question related to the price of CD production and how it affects sales and the use of P2P networks.
Recently on /. link it was discussed how the cost of production software has dropped ($495 for the home version or $15,000 for the pro version) but it does not appear to have made its way to consumers. This particular point seems to slip through the cracks along with other obvious points of interest. The cost of burnable CDs has reached levels of 5 cents a CD for the consumer. Shouldn't this cost saving be available to large producers of music?
Personally I'm very selective of CDs now days because the prices have remained high. I still purchase CDs, but only rarely. Do I download songs off the net? Honestly, very rarely. And the songs I've downloaded are often songs I own on CD - I'm too lazy or uninterested in ripping the song. Of course I have found songs I always wanted to record off the radio or have a copy of because I could never justify $18 for one song as most music (in my opinion) is piss poor and often repetative.
Not that I've contributed anything new to the topic, but at least I've gotten my thoughts out. chichichi-a