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| From | Michael vg <govango@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: too much and or not enough |
| Date | Sun, 13 May 2007 14:02:50 -0700 (PDT) |
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--- MCGaudio@aol.com wrote:
> "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > Interesting perspective. Let's see you apply that to gas stations, car
> > dealerships and auto insurance companies. Just "try" and tell them you won't
> >
> > pay their prices.
>
> Except a) those things are more necessities than music, so people can't as
> easily just decide not to buy, and b) there aren't tens of thousands of
> gas/auto/insurance providers willing to give you their product for nothing or next to
> nothing on their websites or myspace pages. If that happened you can bet the
> prices on all three would plummet dramatically.
I am not sure it is because people are giving it away, as much as it is
now easier to get free music, from friends, download, etc. If gas were
easily duplicated do you really think people would still pay full price
at a gas station, or if we could trade cars like we do MP3s and CDs?
It might be an over simplification but once the industry decided to
digitize music the end was in sight. As they were moving to the CD format
the PC market was beginning to grow. We all traded albums with friends.
Take an album make a tape and pass it on. But now we could make an exact
duplicate of our CD and give it to a friend. Then CD rip software became
a common thing, and soon music was free. No one was really giving it
away at the time that I can remember, other than the consumers. I realize
there are moral issues here galore, but for kids who used to trade tapes
and albums all the time, the advent of the CD, digital files and blank CDRS
just made it easier to do. I don't think in the beginning anyone foresaw
the fallout from this move. Do you really think the industry would have
gone digital if they knew this was the outcome? Or was their greed for
"forcing" a new format on the public what blinded them to the pandora's
box they were about to open?
michael
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