On Aug 19, 2013, at 11:00 , "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If it's over-priced, then don't buy it. If it's sold in a form you don't > > like, don't buy it. That's a free market. > > > It's not a free market since the product I'm interested to buy is not in the > conditions I need, there are no other distributors and more important there > are no other alternatives. The fact that you can buy a disk from other artist > don't have anything to do with the fact that you want to listen to one > particular artist, and this kind of uni-directional statements and mandates > about when, how and about what amount are this products distributed based and > creating an artificial scarcity is not a valid example of free market, but > instead of a monopoly. Well, the artist wants to charge you to listen to his music. If you don't like the price, don't listen. None of us have any 'right' to dictate the price the owner sets. And it is this (the content value) that sets the cost, for the most part -- online, LPs, CDs, cassettes -- it doesn't matter the form. David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
