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In Reply to: RE: Food for thought posted by Jaundiced Ear on September 13, 2014 at 14:09:19
"I hate to post this link because of the outrage it often engenders"
No outrage here. I think the problem is at worst a matter of willful ignorance. I think the author is a fool whose bogus world view has recently been shown to be inconsistent. If he is a person of integrity he faces a rude awakening. I feel sorrow, not outrage, in the face of ignorance.
Now if you want to talk about the prices of hires downloads, that might be different. There is no justification for a huge premium on high res versions of new releases as there are insignificant extra costs involved.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Follow Ups:
Tony:
"I think the author is a fool.."
Your concept of "fool" must vary widely from mine, and must encompass a lot more people.
"Now if you want to talk about the prices of hires downloads, that might be different. There is no justification for a huge premium on high res versions of new releases as there are insignificant extra costs involved."
Again our opinions differ. I see prices as market place signals. I don't think prices have anything to do with the underlying costs of the product.
JE
I understand. As you undoubtedly know, the economic term is price discrimination. For a few years I was responsible for a line of computer peripherals that interconnected mini computers to phone lines. We took one product and through a minor configuration change turned it into two products with almost a 2x price difference. That way we could sell a cheap large version to universities and an expensive small version to Ma Bell. That way I could keep the people who were marketing to universities and the people marketing to the phone company both happy with a "reasonable price". I thought this was a great idea, after all it paid my salary. :=)Blue Coast Records has a huge price premium on their DSD files, but for the past year they have been putting all formats on a single low introductory price for a few weeks. Eclassical.com does something similar with their new releases and there is only a small premium on their "daily specials".
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Edits: 09/15/14
No, not at all.
The same way, I didn't fell "outrage", when some years ago I was passing by an institution in Philly, called something like "Institute for Mental Health and Mental Retardation", and seeing some of the clientele wandering around and sitting on the stairs. Anyone who's been to Philly knows that half of the population there could potentially use the services of that institution, but those who (forced to) actually do - they are "crème de la crème", so to speak.
Did I try not to look? Sure - not too successful, though. That's why I read that article, too.
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