Anybody who lives on a budget will take pride in getting something for nothing. That is how it works.
Of course R-a-D will keep selling Serato. It's a good product. Refusing to sell it would be like refusing to sell blank cd's because people use them to burn bootlegs. Please! And R-a-D, like any other music retailer, needs all the sales they can get. They are not in any position to make any significant, broad-reaching change to how the music business works these days, especially since there is no clear way to make it work any better. The business has dug itself into a hole. It panicked about digital music file sharing; it was way too late in noticing the potential of the technology, and when it did it tried to lock it down, and they're still trying to, and it's not ever going to succeed. It is one of the biggest f-ups in the history of the music business. Policing the internet seems like an impossible task, but it will be done more and more, corporate technology will eventually, finally, really tamp out nearly all file sharing...that is my prediction. It's been catching up for the past few years.. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A very quick interjection from me! > > We're a record retailer but we also sell DJ and Studio equipment- we > currently sell around 10 Serato systems a week and the number has been > growing steadily over the last 2 years. Almost without fail the > customer will tell us with a big grin on their faces that Serato is > great because "I don;t need to pay for music anyomore- I just download > it for free". It's so short sighted it almost beggars belief- the > majority of these people are actually taking pride in getting > something for "nothing". > > Jason > > Rubadub
