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Originally Posted by Pandawdy
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Welcome to the board, Pandawdy! Glad to have you.
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Originally Posted by Pandawdy
I don't believe that Goober is trying to rationalize stealing. The music industry has failed miserably at keeping up with technology.
I won't pay 99 cents for a song when the song doesn't even exist on any sort of physical media, and I certianly won't pay 15 dollars for a CD. So what's the answer? I don't know. But it's clearly a failure of the music industry to capitolize on new technology.
People have been making mp3's for over 10 years now. But the music industry still tries to push CD's on people that don't want to buy them.
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Everything you've said here is right, but when it comes to "rationalizing stealing" its what you would say
next that matters.
There have been God knows how many cases of companies over-pricing their products, either due to poor market research, excessive greed, or run-away production costs. But in almost every case, when an item costs more than we want to pay for it, we just think "
Oh, well. That's too pricy for me. I'll bet they go out of business if they can't bring prices down."
In very, very few cases do we think, "
Hey, that's more expensive than I'm willing to pay; therefore, it's OK if I just take it."
The music industry does indeed over-price many of their wares. But there is a
legal response to that: don't buy the overpriced stuff.
At the end of the day, we have to remember that we don't have some sort of inalienable right to music at a reasonable price.