Mark2 -> RE: Delcamp Forum (Jun. 12 2007 18:31:30)
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Hogwash. You don't get to set the price of something you didn't create. Do you go into a gas station and tell them since the oil compnay is already rich you are only willing to pay .35 a gallon or you'll steal it? A CD costs a buck and change to replicate, but your not thinking about recording costs, distribution, promotion, etc. Barnes and Noble has to pay rent, etc, and they don't get the CD's for 1.00-They pay 8-9 dollars for popular cd's and at least five dollars for indie cd's. I'm no saint-I've got burned CD's and I've burned a few for friends, but I don't pretend that if CD's only cost 5.00 that I would never burn one. That's BS! Blanks are free after mail in rebate, so it's 5.00 vs. free. You'd probably burn them anyway, then make up another excuse. Now onto copywrite: Maybe I shouldn't get to leave my home to my kids. Maybe I should have to give it up to the government after I croak.........uh no. A musical compostion is no different-it's a creation of the composer, and it's rights should be respected or else there will be no professional composers, or recordings-just amatuers, and we have plenty of those as it is. If all of a sudden people were offering you serious money to publish your work in a book, you'd be singing a different tune. quote:
ORIGINAL: Bogdan1980 jshelton5040 Well, but don't you think if people kept selling music for a buck or two there wouldn't be a need to copy? It's like with the CDs and music. I read somewhere that it costs $1.60 to produce a CD. In Barnes and Noble it costs $20, talk about a profit margin. I would much rather spend $5 on a genuine CD than have recorded CDs everywhere, forgetting which one is which. But until CDs are $20 a pop people will continue sharing music. Of course you can say that until people keep sharing music selling CDs is not profitable so they are expensive. It's a vicious circle [;)]. I think the problem is that everyone's pretty greedy. Copyright wouldn't be an issue at all if the money weren't involved. As PhD candidate at a university I have to publish. I've published in several journals and these are of course covered by copyright. To me it's there so that no one can say they are the authors of what I've written. Money is not really (shouldn't be) an issue. I especially have hard time listening to all this copyright stuff when it comes to those musicians who are exorbitantly rich now. [:D]
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