Linked by Paul Cesarini on Mon 8th Sep 2003 03:02 UTC
Thanks to a provision in the 1976 Copyright Act, U.S. law allows the first purchaser of copyrighted material (a book, CD, etc) to subsequently re-sell that item without the copyright owner's consent. In this age of online distribution and the budding, halting attempts at legitimizing it, is the the right to re-sell going to be upheld?
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between the price that a cd costs to produce and distribute ($2 per cd at most) plus the artists cut (another $2 or 3$) and what we pay for it ($15 to $20) you know someone is robbing you, multiply that for the number of cd's you have in your collection and see why people have no respect for the music industry.
And while you're at it download some great free music from artists that the industry seems to have forgotten (too good I guess): http://www.clannzu.com/