From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 1 13:16:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F3F537B41A for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:16:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 17071 invoked by uid 100); 1 Mar 2002 21:16:44 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15487.61372.124944.431363@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:16:44 -0600 To: anderson@centtech.com Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSSCA (Was: DVD+RW) In-Reply-To: <3C7FE3DD.B06CE8F6@centtech.com> References: <3C7F80DC.B63138D8@centtech.com> <20020301172757.GA421@raggedclown.net> <15487.48787.947758.22079@guru.mired.org> <3C7FD708.3DE9B7AD@centtech.com> <15487.57977.914606.803767@guru.mired.org> <3C7FE3DD.B06CE8F6@centtech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.47 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eric Anderson types: > I would guess that keeping prices reasonable would keep most people from copying > it. I mean really, if a CD was $3, you probably would buy more of them, and > pirate less.. Maybe these companies should invest in companies who make blank > media? Why should they do that? They've already got the US government collecting taxes on a lot of that blank media for them. Besides, that would mean they'd have to go from a 1000% markup to a 300% one. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message