[BC] Arrested for just telling people where to find Copywrited material.

[Cowboy]

On Tuesday 23 October 2007 08:04 pm, Tom wrote:
>  Question - That $18.00 CD - how many tracks?  It seems that the 
>  market has settled on an average of about a dollar a song; that  $18 
>  CD might have 18-20 tracks; in which case it's about right.  That's 
>  what I'm paying per CD for the Starborne Custom library; a dollar a 
>  song seems about right, given inflation - Today's dollar is closer to 
>  the $0.10 - $0.25 range of my youth - and that's what I typically 
>  paid for a 45...
>  The $7.99 LPs were a bargain!

 Yeah, the market ( including legit download ) appears to agree that
 about $1/song is about right.
 The challenge, as you allude, is that for the ONE you want,
 probably badly mixed, one must pay for 17 you don't want.
 If we do as consumers do, and consider only the tracks that have
 value as being paid for, and the rest as useless throw-a-way
 excelsior, then we have an average of $18 per song, ( $9 if there
 happens to be a second desired song on the CD )
 much, much more than the market will bare.

 How many are willing, even in the wasteful USA, to pay 18x the
 value for anything ?
 2x probably. 5x questionable, but 9-18x ??

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Cowboy