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To: Steve 667 who wrote (10330)	4/13/2000 8:06:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

>>>>> now cost about $18 for a music CD that usually has only 1 or 2 tracks that most people really like. The rest is usually filler crap. This is ridiculous and just caused by pure greed! Screw the music business and their greed and arrogance! Napster is great and long overdue. Let the greedy bastards get their prices down to a reasonable $3 or $4 per CD and I will think about paying. Let them eat cake, my ass!<<< Hmmm. using this same bit of "logic", all I can really say is I hope that whatever you do for a living, I sincerely hope on your next job you work your ass off and never receive a check for it. I really do.

To: Steve 667 who wrote (10330)	4/14/2000 10:08:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

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