Originally Posted by
gladiator13
You do make a valid point though but I ask you this. If I don't want a BMW I can go buy a different car with similar functions for half the price. In regards to media, where does option come in. A cd either costs X amount or you don't buy it. A movie either cost X amount or you don't buy it. I know I'm making it a tad extreme but where are the controls for pricing in the media field. Everybody is charging the BMW price because nobody will make or sell a product at the Kia price.
I would disagree. If you don't want a
top 100 band CD, you can go buy a different CD from an Indie band or other freelance musician for less, sometimes even free. You're just expecting the BMW at the Ford price.
Originally Posted by
wens
But downloading music is different from stealing a car. If you steal a car no one else can use that car. If you dl a song it doesn't prevent anyone else from listening to that song.
Like I said, I'd wait until the end of the model year, so it was one nobody wanted anyway. Plus, the manufacturer will just make another. But just for another angle, if enough people stole that song, the artist would stop producing songs because they aren't getting paid enough, so you don't really know which songs would have existed if it were not for pirated music.