ever herd of economy of scale when production and/or distribution prices go down so should the end user price would you not agree that the average price of a cd must be at least (fro the physical media ) be a dozen times cheaper to get from the artist to the listener.I am not saying that it is everything but there would be no cd no case no nice printed material no store hell why not a hundred times cheaper (p2p is practically free)and the average downloader consumes ten times the amount of music as someone who strictly buys cds.I am not saying that this type of demand would insure (artists getting paid) even if songs were many times less expensive.althoe i do think it is possible. the point ? the point, its not absolutly shure that the prices not reflecting the change in economy of scale is affecting whether people buy,but the fact that p2p users have become their own distributors and manufacturers suggests a possibility that it may be economics that are at stake not the morality of your friends.
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ever herd of economy of scale when production and/or distribution prices go down so should the end user price would you not agree that the average price of a cd must be at least (fro the physical media ) be a dozen times cheaper to get from the artist to the listener .I am not saying that it is everything but there would be no cd no case no nice printed material no store hell why not a hundred times cheaper (p2p is practically free)and the average downloader consumes ten times the amount of music as someone who strictly buys cds .I am not saying that this type of demand would insure (artists getting paid) even if songs were many times less expensive .althoe i do think it is possible. the point ? the point, its not absolutly shure that the prices not reflecting the change in economy of scale is affecting whether people buy ,but the fact that p2p users have become their own distributors and manufacturers suggests a possibility that it may be economics that are at stake not the morality of your friends.