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Re: The evil record empire




In article <001901bffd51$50aa9c80$ca314ace@compaq>,
    "Mark R. Leaman" <mleaman@sccoast.net>  writes:

> >well placed anger towards evil record companies turning into wildly
> >mis-placed justification for stealing from artists?
> 
> That's my question exactly. And not one person has been able to answer it so
> far.

Because consumers are just plain tired of being gouged.  Ever since
CDs first came out the labels have been promising that the price would
come down and it hasn't come down one bit.  So the end result is that
people would rather use napster than shell out $17 for a new CD.  Why
is this a big surprise?  To me its a blatantly obvious reaction to the
years of price gouging.  The record companies got theirs, now its the
consumer's turn.  They don't see it as "stealing from artists", they
see it as stealing from the record companies.  The artists don't
interact with the public at all except in the content of their work.
The record labels have inserted themselves between the public and the
artist in every interaction they could.

Would people be so interested in napster now if the record companies
had passed along the savings from mass production to the consumer so
that a brand new CD cost something like $5 instead of $17?  Maybe, but
probably to not such a great extent.
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