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From: flip <flippo@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: July/August RIAA Boycott
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In article <MPG.198a4eff229554f69897e9@news.cis.dfn.de>,
CQ <cappynospamcue@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In a previous post, flip said...
>
> > They've apparently determined that the market price is what it is.
>
> Oh for crying out loud. Of course it is "what it is". Why is it "what
> it is" though? It is "what it is" because the price was illegally fixed
> at "what it is".
That doesn't make sense. If the price was fixed at something other than
the market level, once you remove the fixing, the price should adjust.
>
> > No need for price fixing.
>
> No, there is no further need at this time for any gasoline, the whole
> fucking house in in flames.
>
> You are a treasure, flippo.
I see you haven't been able to come up with any rational arguments.
>
> > Sure there's a reason. That's the price that non-thieves are willing to
> > pay.
>
> This attitude you so happily accept like a good sheeple of "charge
> whatever the market will bear" is the exact reason why the music industry
> is now faced with the fact that millions of otherwise perfectly law
> abiding and morally upright citizens are willing to download and share
> the music rather than pay those artificially high prices to further
> enrich the corporate coffers...
Sorry, people who steal music aren't 'perfectly law abiding and morally
upright".
The price is lower than it's ever been after adjusting for inflation.
>
> **Even if they violate current copyright law doing so.**
>
> Pretty much comes down to: "If you don't like it, tough shit" when you
> cut through all the other rhetoric, flippo. You are an insignificant
> barnacle on the dinghy of life and neither the p2p community nor the RIAA
> really gives a shit what you think about the whole thing.
>
I realize that you don't care about people with morality. You're intent
on stealing the music and nothing anyone could possibly say would change
that. That's not my problem - it's yours.
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