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Originally posted by leagleaze
It has been proposed that much like a small fee has been added to blank tapes, a small fee should be added to blank cds. In return, based upon some equation I couldn't begin to understand, a portion of that fee is returned to the different companies that are most likely having their songs downloaded.
I believe that particular plan had some kinks to work out as of yet, but it is the best one I have heard so far, because fact is, they are no more going to stop file trading then they are going to stop underage kids from drinking and smoking cigarettes, or many people from smoking pot. And frankly, trading files is easier and cheaper to do than those things.
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Here's the problem: blank CDs are not just for music, and, for music, they are no longer the medium of choice for recording. So I mainly purchase blank CDs for sharing photos and home movies (since I don't download songs) and, to a lesser extent, for data storage. You buy yourself an MP3 player with built in hard drive so you can download 1000 songs, infringing copyrights like crazy. Now you want me, noble and upright citizen that I am, to subsidize your illegal habits.
Can I just buy you some pot instead?
