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> Then why is a cassette tape about half the cost of a CD?
>>Because a cassette can be made for about $.45, + packaging (which is
typically MUCH less because there's less 4 color, only 1 piece of printed
material, and typically about $.20-.50/unit, where CD packaging can cost
$.50-$1.00 per…. Also, the norelco box is abou $.15 and a jewell box is about
$.35. It all adds up.<<
Yeah, but it doesn't add up to anything remotely close to the cost
differential. Using your own figures, there is a max difference of $.35 to make
the disc, $.80 for packaging, and $.20 for the box. There's $1.35 difference,
at the high side. Now tell me again, why is that $14 CD twice that of a
cassette?
>>If your house burns down, I'm sorry. I hope you're insured. I also hope you
don't expect every manufacturer of things you own to replace them for free.
When you buy a CD, you are buying the disc itself and the right to play it back
*for your own use*. Please read the US copyright laws.<<
>> It's called a (P) copyright, owned by the producer and/or the manufacturer
of the recording. I suggest you spend a few days reading up on US copyright
law… it's all available on the net @ the library of congress.<<
Well, I don't know if I'll be able to spare a couple of days or not….. My
interest at this time is as a consumer not an author so I can't write it off
but it does remain an area of interest. I'll give the LOC a try – do you have
the net address or other details on where to look or what to look for ?
I believe that you may have acknowledged in an earlier message that it is
legitimate to make a cassette copy of your own CD, for your own use. This would
seem to recognize consumer rights that go beyond "the right to play it back
*for your own use*".
No, I don't expect to have every manufacturer replace "things" that get
destroyed. But I still believe that part of what I have bought with music is
not just a "thing" but a license that cannot be destroyed or unjustly taken
away from me.
If my house *does* burn down, have I lost my car title? My drivers's license?
My computer software? My proof of car insurance? These are all "things" which,
if lost, do not take away the underlying license, service or privilege. They
can all be replaced without having to incur the full price that was originally
paid. They are only representations of an underlying agreement that does not
get destroyed.
Britt B.
> There's $1.35 difference
Yes, at the manufacturing stage, $1.35 can = $6-8.00 retail.
Britt, you sound like you have little experience in manufacturing and the
retail trades… do you have any idea what actual manufacturing costs of some
common products that you use daily are?
Would you protest if you found out?
And WHAT IF the record companies are gouging you? Don't you think they'd drop
the price in an instant if sales disinigrated?
What about software? Do you think it's wrong for me to charge $299 for my
CD-ROMs (we know that my manufacturing costs without programmers royalties are
about $3-4/unit). How about my overhead, employees, etc… ?
I can't continue this dialog until you have more knowledge of the US copyright
laws. And as I typically have to say to someone somewhere on-line once or twice
a year, the US copyright law is LAW, not opinion. It's not "I think it should
be this way…" it's the way it is, until you can convince Congress to change
it. I wish you all the best.
Jeremy