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Originally Posted by Good Old Neon
I can sign on to Amazon, enter my credit card (or use one click), and then download an entire CD’s worth of material in minutes, in most cases, for under ten dollars.
How much more convenient does it need to get?
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And people do! Not everybody, but you couldn't get everybody in the world to whistle the same note, either. Same for Apple I-tunes. The original Warner DVD head wanted to get the old catalog titles down to $5 or less and sell them on racks everywhere, like magazines. The DVD industry got as big as it did by that thinking, rather that the Disney goal of selling them for 50 or more dollars each. On the other hand, I bought a CD. What did I buy? A shiny disc which makes a poor Frisbee? Or the music on it? Or a single user license to the music on it? A bound-to-the-disc single license to the music on the disc? Who decides? I paid my money, don't I get some input here? Why not?