That idea is completed ridiculous. Tierd pricing? Unreal. I'm not even going to go talk about suppy and demand, but that idea is crazy. I'm not a big fan of buying cd's or downloading singles for $.99 per song because it seems like these days, you need a different type of mp3 player for each site. If I pay for something, I want to be able to use it how I want to, not how the company wants me to.
But off that, the recording industry is now making the consumer pay for all of their mistakes. Pay for them failing to recognize new markets emerging with the speed and dominance that they have (i.e. Internet). If you want to go buy a new cd, look at spending around $20 or so, maybe a little less. How much can it actually cost to produce a cd from one of today's top artists? Contrast this with how much a brand new DVD costs if you were to purchase it on the first or second day of it's release.. around $15 at Wal-Mart. I cannot see a feasible comparision on the price it costs it produce a blockbuster movie to a music cd. Yet the music still costs more.
Maybe if the greedy bastards controlling the price of the music would ease up and take to see that music is not worth that outrageous price that they charge, sales would increase.
While piracy obviously contributes to losses running into millions of dollars, I would bet that a near equal amount of money lost can be attributed to the recording industry fail to act on new markets and see a potential for profit early on, before piracy erupted into the large scale market that it is now.
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That's good news for people just wanting to rock the hell out over the holidays.
So you mean there was a shortage of guitars before the lawsuit?
That idea is completed ridiculous. Tierd pricing? Unreal. I'm not even going to go talk about suppy and demand, but that idea is crazy. I'm not a big fan of buying cd's or downloading singles for $.99 per song because it seems like these days, you need a different type of mp3 player for each site. If I pay for something, I want to be able to use it how I want to, not how the company wants me to. But off that, the recording industry is now making the consumer pay for all of their mistakes. Pay for them failing to recognize new markets emerging with the speed and dominance that they have (i.e. Internet). If you want to go buy a new cd, look at spending around $20 or so, maybe a little less. How much can it actually cost to produce a cd from one of today's top artists? Contrast this with how much a brand new DVD costs if you were to purchase it on the first or second day of it's release .. around $15 at Wal-Mart. I cannot see a feasible comparision on the price it costs it produce a blockbuster movie to a music cd. Yet the music still costs more.
Maybe if the greedy bastards controlling the price of the music would ease up and take to see that music is not worth that outrageous price that they charge, sales would increase.
While piracy obviously contributes to losses running into millions of dollars, I would bet that a near equal amount of money lost can be attributed to the recording industry fail to act on new markets and see a potential for profit early on, before piracy erupted into the large scale market that it is now.