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Originally Posted by MarsBot  People tend to blame pirating for the problems in the music industry, but as this study shows, it's just one aspect of the problem. Distribution costs have fallen dramatically, but the record companies haven't passed those savings on to the consumer (surprise!). This article suggests that record companies and artists would make a lot more money if they lowered the price of digital downloads: Study: digital music is too expensive : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech |
The record industry did the exact same thing with vinyl and CD. CD's were far less costly to manufacture/print and ship than vinyl was. Yet the put a price increase on CD's