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Originally Posted by rhadin
The questions are: What is a reasonable price? Who determines it? What factors are included? What weight is each given? Does the market agree? etc.
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The questions if the market agrees is just that what has been said. The higher the pricer the higher the impulse to "steal", that is the higher market participators fall out of it. Its actually part of the "market" in a broader sense.
Depends I personally am not sorry for the multi-millionaires have some dollar less, especially in the music industry. Its different in the movie-industry where the production of a movie does cost a lot.
I may draw an exaggerated analogy here. But when you feel your goverment oppresses you, does this give you the right to violate all laws, and throw them over? Was the Boston teaparty right to violate U.K. law by throwing the tea into the sea? Just they personally felt being treated unfairly?
Especially in the music industry the production side of the market is highly "lobbilised", taking serious influence in the law making production, while the consumer side has it very difficult to create lobby of the same strength to have an equillibrum of forces here on the legal lawmaking stuff. And especially in contries where 3rd party lobbies have a bigger inpakt on the state, you on which side the copyright moves (see U.S.). So yes, I can understand when somebody rather downloads instead of buys as form of protest. I mean in the high peek in the 1990ies it was 40$ for an album, where actual production costs for the medium is less than 1$? Seriously. And yes prices did drop, and yes piracy *did* a major factor in that, without that Im sure we'd still pay this or more in the shop.