On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:41:59PM -0500, Randi128 at aol.com wrote: > You are correct, not everyone who pirates a copy would have bought a retail > copy had the pirated copy not been available. But---- how else do you > determine the losses? If I sold 50 copies and 200 people pirated copies, I > would like to think that those people who pirated were just too cheap to pay > for their copies. Or maybe you're asking too much, and they don't think it's worth it. > So---the market is there. If pirating is killing your > business, maybe your charging too much. A CD or book is only worth what > people are willing to pay for it. Maybe it would be better to decrease retail > price to capture those pirates money? Hell yes. Sell CDs at $3/each and Napster will die even without the court cases. > Teenagers who can afford to have a > system that can burn Cds and download Mp3's-----can't afford to buy music??? Their parents buy the computers. How many many CDs can you buy for $50 (the cost of a cheap CD burner)? > Don't value the music enough to pay for it is more like it. The price is too high. $20 for a CD whose songs I can't preview, and isn't returnable? Sorry, only a very few artists are consistent enough to be worth that. Everybody else (particularly new artists that don't get radio time) is a $20 gamble, and I'm not a gamblin' man. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp