"Andrew Virnuls" wrote in message
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"Tumbleweed" wrote in message
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"The Artist" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ic/3416437.stm

And then they'll be complaining later that illegal downloads have
increased.
If you had any moral qualms about downloading, this action should remove
them.

An intriguing point of view - can you explain why? I'd quite like a
Porsche
Boxster, but don't want to pay £31,450 for it - after all, there can't be
more than a couple of grand's worth of materials in it - would it be OK to
steal one of those, too?

Crap analogy, but lets run with it... its the equivalent of Porche
physically preventing me buying a Boxter from (say) Hong Kong where they are
(say) half the price, even though they can apparently sell at a profit in
Hong Kong and their dealer in Hong Kong is very happy to sell me one.

Also, lets be quite clear, I am *not* stealing their product by downloading
it, because I was going to *buy it* from Hong Kong, and Hell Will Freeze
Over before I buy it in the UK, so they have lost nothing at all, they dont
get a sale in the UK to me in either case.


I'm not saying that the BPI approach is right, but CDs are luxury goods,
and
so, presumably, there is an least an element of "opportunity pricing."
They
can't really have a "value for money" as you're buying something
intangible
(although I think they're cheap compared with concerts, trips to the
cinema,
days out, etc.).


I really dont care. I want to take advantage of global pricing, just as
these companies do themselves when it comes to sourcing supplies and jobs.
All I ask is the same global supply opportunities the companies have. Thats
all I expect, a fair playing field.


Surely the approach of most right-thinking people who don't want to pay
for
luxury goods would be to go without, rather than to steal?

Companies clamour for global trade. And then when they get it, try and stop
it for their consumers!! They don't have any qualms about shutting down jobs
in this country in order to ship them somewhere cheaper, yet when I try and
buy from one of those cheaper places, they want to stop me. Its nothing
short of outrageous.

Surely the approach of most right-thinking people would be that if the
company can manufacture its products wherever it wants, I can buy them
wherever I want?

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