The Dink Network

I know downloading songs from something like Kazaa can be considered stealing, but they should at least drop the prices. Its not easy to find any cd's that are well know for under 15 dollars, even though I bought two DVD's for $15, and they came with plenty of special features.(the movies were Pi and Requiem for A Dream) And most cd's are half the length of the movies on DVD, and DVD's are much more expensive to print than CD's.

What is the point of this? I fail to see it.

....bleh. I decided to remove everything in this post. I was only being contradictory and hostile.

Disorder in the ranks!
Shoot them all!

The point is that the music industry is screwing us up the ass, and they deserve what they're getting.

Maybe you're a bit right, but this is not an excuse. Warez or piracy will never be nice.
But this is true, they deserve what they're getting.

Oh, ok, lets play that game.

You don't like the prices of the CD's, so it is right to steal in order to avoid it.

Well, I don't like your posts, so I will ban you in order to avoid you.

See my point? Doesn't make it right. Now, I do think that dropping the prices a dollar or 2 wouldn't hurt, but think about it. Marketing, manufaturing, studio time, shipping, the stores cut, that is all added in to a $15 CD. The music industry is expensive to keep going and that is why CD's cost that much.

I don't know who you're talking to but I never pirated anything. I hate that. I just said this : The prices are too high, so if there is piracy, I won't cry on them. If you ban people AND IF THEY DESERVE IT, I won't cry on them either. It's not my problem (anyway, I never buy CDs).

I dont see it as wroung or right, but more as its choice and preference. We are probably very far from the government starting to arrest people for this, so for the time being its just what are your principals. I have the ability to download all my cds but I get cds just to have them. Kinda like not haveing a picture of somthing you like, versus, haveing the real thing

Uh, that was a reply to safmoor and everyone else in general, not specifically you.

You missed my first post didn't you? Movies cost at least 20 million dollars if they aren't low budget, recordings cost at most a couple million if you spend as much time in the studio as say Def Leppard for Pyromania. You can get both of them at 15$, so which is actually a better deal? Which has more content? Do you know how much the artists get paid for royalties? They usually don't get paid more than 5$ for a CD. They're getting screwed up the ass too. Kazaa isn't necessarily right, but the record companies should learn a little lesson for overpricing and underpaying. And if you ever read the magazine "wired", you would've realized that the record companies could've avoided this by reducing some of their profit short-term so people wouldn't be motivated to steal music on the internet. Now that they're in the digital industry, they're way too late and they dug their own graves. It would take a world war and another hitler to keep music from being openly shared around the world.

Of course, the record companies have to charge extra to pay for all the lawyers they hire to battle file-sharing programs that allow users to swap music since prices are too high because the record companies have to charge extra to pay for all the lawyers they hire to blah blah blah...

(Note: I do not actually know this for a fact; I'm merely amusing myself.)