Good thing I've never been much into the music...
However I'd say MP3 downloading is way too exagerated.
For example you simply cannot compare it to shoplifting, since you can just as well in the case compare it to stealing of a CD from the store and thats one CD less to sell for the store and the publisher... but downloading MP3 , it's cloning.. think of the CD's cloning in the store if someone steals one. (oh.. not gonna happen any time
soon! ...just wait for the time we can grab a blank disc from a desk, insert it into a machine at the store and the machine writes the
chosen music into it in less than 5 minutes)
Sabre,
In any case, the price of music hasn't gone down even when there was hardly option to download music over the net, so how could we expect it to go down if people won't buy it?
With the inflation, it's only been going up from what I've seen, with the exception of a couple publishers or so.
I remember the CD hype from several years back.. it was supposed to make music cheaper as opposed to casettes or LP's, however I'm yet to see it come true.. I've only seen the dissapearance of casettes and LP's. (and by now making music on casettes and LP's would be more expensive, just because the manufacturing price has gone up for the two! )
I suppose the people sharing music on casettes was too big burden on the music industry and they kept the prices high
