Music CD Piracy... Who is kidding who?
By Aussies2007
@Aussies2007 (5336)
Australia
April 12, 2007 6:25am CST
Music Piracy did not really start in earnest until 2000... when everyone could afford a computer and a CD burner.
Meanwhile... people like me... who grew up in the sixties... had bought an extensive collection of Vinyl Lps for 30 years.
When I bought my first CD player in the late eighties... I proceeded to replace my vinyl collection with CDs. Now just imagine how many people like me did exactly the same thing... the record companies made billions out of this. And to this day... they are selling every type of music ever made... going back decades... by simply copying it on CD.
Record companies can produce a CD for less than two dollars. The artist is lucky to get 10 per cent of the wholesale price... while the record company gets a massive ninety per cent.
They already made their fortune in previous decades by selling the vinyls. Then... they doubled their fortune by selling the same album on CDs. And now that computers and cd burners have come in... they are screaming "Piracy!". Yes... I really do feel for them...
Try to explain to me how you justify selling a music CD for $20.00 when it only cost you $2.00 to make.
Would I be off line if I said that the record companies are the biggest pirates of all?
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4 responses
@kathy77 (7485)
• Australia
12 Apr 07
Well you are right about the music piracy not starting to around th year 2000, when people could afford a computer and burn CD's. I grew up in the 50's but most of the music I really started to buy was in the 60's as well as that is the time I was a young teenager and bought many records. I did not buy my CD actually I won it in a club in the late '80's. which I was so happy that I did not have to buy it,. But have had many hours of listening to some wonderful music. I would have to agree with you completely when it does not cost hardly anything to make and yet they charge the consumer so much money for them.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
12 Apr 07
That's where we win though. The dirty little secret is, if you have it on vinyl, cassette, CD or even 8 track, you can copy it for your own use as many times as you want. That also means that if you own it on a hard copy medium, you can also have the same version of the song on your computer.
That's right, if you have Frampton Comes Alive on album, you can download Frampton Comes Alive. You don't have to buy it on CD (or whatever) anymore!
Btw, in answer to your question about how they can justify charging $20 for a CD that costs less than $2 to produce? Because that is what people are willing to pay.
@recycledgoth (9894)
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12 Apr 07
I'm with you on this one hun. Like you, I had a large collection of vinyl, then got a cd player and cd's. My partner and I still have a huge collection of vinyl between us and an equally huge cd collection. However, there are a lot of albums we would love to have on cd and just can't afford them as the prices are way too high. The bands don't make from the sale of cd's only the record companies.
