lanky used our newssubmit to report: "In an interesting Australian news story they discuss how cheap online music might actally fight piracy. I can see most average reader (even computer 'newbies') would agee cheaper would mean more sales after reading this article":
Sony and Universal Music, the world's two largest record companies, reportedly will lower their prices for downloadable music to as little as $US9.99 ($A17.63) an album and US99 cents ($A1.74) a single. |
The move followed a report which found music piracy had jumped by 50 per cent in 2001, creating a black market worth $7.6 billion.
Mr Speck, a former NSW policeman, today stood by his earlier comments that it was "morally repugnant to allow criminals to determine the price of a legitimate product".
"Should CDs be cheaper to fight piracy? The answer is certainly not," he said today. But the record companies' decision was nonetheless a positive step, Mr Speck said.
As lanky continues: Maybe they learnt, but they cannot admit it that they have been charging too much for a product that takes a 200th the cost of a movie to make. Yet they charge more then the cinemas and close to the price of a DVD for.
Source: Theage.com.au
