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Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Music Piracy An interesting article here on the state of album sales in Russia. I think they dance around the point a bit. The point being that if piracy was wiped out it's not like people would suddenly start paying full price to RIAA for music; no, people would not spend the money at all. $15 is too much for an album. 99¢ is too much to pay for a song. "The prices are ridiculously high,” says Tanya, 21. “I only buy pirate CDs, and so does everyone else. If you buy a licensed copy, you are either an idiot, or a snob. Or you are getting it as a gift for a very important person, since it has more attractive packaging."Same over here. In Russia, they buy the bootleg albums because internet access is too expensive to make downloading practical. Here, the internet is cheap and getting cheaper. There's no reason to spend twenty bucks on a CD that can get scratched and stolen. I had my car broken into two weeks ago. The bastard stole about 40 CDs contained in two leather cases. I only miss the cases: everything else was music that I had burned myself. Sure, it's a pain to have to reburn new driving mixes, but I was getting pretty tired of my collection anyway. Now I have an excuse to burn a bunch of new stuff. And the blank CDs only cost about 2¢ if you get them onsale or with a rebate. |
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