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Re: Cost of Software and Death of Innovation
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Originally Posted by Pandawdy
But the difference between a CD and a file on my hard drive is... the file on my hard drive costs nothing to reproduce. They both are digital information on a medium, but in the case of a file on my hard drive, that medium was already mine. If I buy a song online, I'm providing the medium to store the song. So what have I paid for? Nothing more than the privelage to hear a song, and that doesn't phsyically exist. Then you take it upon yourself to preserve the data, and all kinds of problems arise from that.
How much did you pay for vinyl records in the 80's?
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Well, technically, the song does physically exist as a pattern of electrons on a platter in a hard drive. It exists in the same way that it does on a CD as a pattern of indentations on a layer of aluminum.
IIRC, albums were 7 or 8 bucks when I was buying them.
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