Steve, I just "financed" the production of my son's first music CD, the cost (without his time) was $2500 for a first pressing of 1000 CD's, I realize that the cost would be lower in larger quantities, but if they sold these for $3 bucks a piece, the musician will end up having to play on streets' corners. My son sells his CD's for $6, that will barely cover his real costs. Unless you think that musicians that create IP (music is a form of intellectual property) should not be compensated like other creators of IP(like SNDK and RMBS), what you are doing is essentially stealing bread from "poor musicians'" table like my "little boy" (he just turned 18, so to me he is still "little"). Sure the big record companies are making a lot of money on CD sold at $18/piece, but how much of this do you think the musicians are getting? So, you want to rob them of this little as well?
Go out, support a starving artist and buy a CD, don't copy it for free.
Zeev |
