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xdamage
06-30-2007, 03:08 PM
But has anyone noticed that with the increased "competition" that you've been able to find some good older CD's at $9.99 to $11.99 now (as in more like the way the pricing works with other types of media (books, video games, DVDs). As opposed to before when they charged the same frigging $15.99 the day that album came out.

I haven't bought many CDs lately. I do occasionally buy 1 or 2 songs for a buck or two from ITunes. Putting aside having bought individual songs from some older albums, overall I'm still spending a lot less on music then I use to spend. While I've come to enjoy the ?filler? songs on CDs in the past because I had not choice but to buy the whole CD, my tolerance for paying $15.99+ for a CD when I only want a song or two and can buy it off ITunes for a buck or two has gone way down.

Also of interest, ITunes is now offering DRM free versions of many songs compressed at twice the bit rate for $.30 (cents) more per song. Seems the industry is slowly but surely coming to realize that DRM is turn off for many buyers, and for a small extra profit the Hollywood execs are willing to completely forget the demand for DRM ;)

Lysondra
06-30-2007, 06:21 PM
Try buying your favourite music imported from Japan... $60 a CD! D: I think it's worth it though for some of my favourite artists. I download one song from allofmp3 (so I still pay for it) and if I like their music, I buy their albums.

I joke about illegal downloading.. but even my copy of Photoshop is legal...

maximvsv
06-30-2007, 10:14 PM
The copyright act is not part of the criminal code. There is no "conspiracy to commit" - you either commit it or you don't. I didn't pull that example out of the air. These examples have already been determined. Libraries are not responsible for users violating copyright. Print shops are.

By all means, take a look. Napster was storing. That was the difference between the Napster case and the Bearshare case.

The civil side allows for conspiracy liabilty, too.