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Default Re: OT: Recording Industry Ripoff

It's clearly all the band's fault.
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Default Re: OT: Recording Industry Ripoff

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Your example of a Ferrari vs. Neon is irrelevant.
Actually, I think it is quite relevant. They are both cars yet sell for drastically different amounts. Ferrari's do not cost 1/3 as much to build as they sell for whereas Neon's have a very small markup / margin - probably less than 5%. From my standpoint it was relevant to the point I was trying to make. My point was the selling price really has very little to do with manufacturing costs but rather what people will pay for it.

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I care that they are producing a very tiny amount of music amidst a deluge of filth and charging an insane rate for it
Another supporting arguement. Yes it is crap - I totally agree. Yet it sells and makes someone money - sometimes a lot of money. And that crap does not cost much to make vs. what it sells for. Again price has very little to do with cost.

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I care that they are constantly trying to destroy my fair use rights to use legally purchased music however I want (non-commercially) and trying to prevent me from encoding music however I like so that I am not stuck with unusable formats in 5 or 10 years time
Of that, I am in total agreement.
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