Record Industry Wants Royalties for Used CD Sales [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] How long is it going to take for the record industry to figure out that maybe they've simply priced them self out of the market? [...] There has to be a value proposition there though, right now there isn't. I'd pay for MP3s, $.50 per song or $7 on average for a full album. [...] I will only pay for 100% unencumbered MP3s (or equivalent like ogg). Add any kind of digital rights management into the equation and the game is over. [Bright Eyed Mister Zen]

There was a time when businesses had to do market research to find out what its customers wanted.  Figuring out how much to charge for a product was difficult.  Now all you have to is browse the Internet.  We're telling the entertainment industry what their product is worth to us.  And how to deliver it.

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