Your posted message is too long i only read the first two lines.
Roger wrote:
> Actually it turns out that Flip may not be an "RIAA Sockpuppet" after all.
> Look at his e-mail addy, and then check-out the website where he gets his
> e-mail.
>
> URL: www.mac.com
>
> Can you say Apple Macintosh?
>
> That should make you think of Apple iMusic.......
>
> Which means he is a vested-interest "sockpuppet", for sure!
>
> Of course it should not be too hard to understand that the RIAA Agenda
> will
> be in the best interest of Apple iMusic, EH!
>
> The IP Robber Barons, and their employees, all want you to either buy the
> CDs or else download "legal" MP3s files (for only $1.95 each!) for your
> personal use. But you must not SHARE them...... or the RIAA will get you.
>
> HINT: Multiply the number of tracks burned on an audio CD by $1.95. Are
> they cutting you any slack, or are you still going to be paying $25+ for the
> equivalent content of an audio CD? Plus, you will then have to use your
> computer to record the MP3s you have bought onto a CD, which you will also
> have to pay for!
>
> Personally, I think the correct Free Market price for a downloadable MP3
> file should be 50 cents. That would, in turn, translate to about a $6.00
> price for an audio CD purchased at a local music shop.
>
> I realize that the prices I quoted is only an honest business mark-up, and
> it certainly is not the 500% to 2000% mark-up as demanded by the hog-greedy
> IP Robber Barons, but it is all I intend to pay!
>
> Memo for Flip: I get my CDs for $5.00 (and DVDs for $7.50) at the local
> USED media stores in my town, and will continue to do so until the IP Robber
> Baron mentality, and their hog-greedy actions, are finally stopped. My
> purchases this year so far amount to 50 DVDs & 75 CDs, with a direct loss to
> their producers of around 3 thousand dollars (since I no longer buy New
> items).
>
> This is, of course, a REAL LOSS .... as opposed to your make-believe loss
> which you claim occurs when someone shares a MP3 file.
>
> Pleasant dreams.....
>
> "flip" <flippo@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:flippo-731919.06091902072003@news.central.cox.net...
>
> > > As for you Flip, are you being paid by the word or post???
> >
> > I'm not being paid anything, nor do I have any financial interest in any
> > entertainment company.
> >
> > My company, however, is based on intellectual property (trade secrets
> > and patents). This 'we can steal whatever we like because the owner
> > wants too much money' mentality threatens the entire free market system.
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