"Iain M Churches" wrote


OK, I'll do the snipping - 6 indents is a bit more than I can take...!!


Not the point. Overpricing and rareity *cause* the counterfeiting be it
music, watches, clothing or Vermeers...

In addition, one can easily tell a cheap counterfeit watch, or item of
clothing.


You think so?


Counterfeit CD's are clones of the original produced at next to
no cost.


The 'pirate stuff' I've seen (only a couple of Chinese DVDs) is/was a damn
sight more obviously fake than the only 'replica' watch I've seen - which
was an exact copy of a gold Rolex I had at the time. From a few feet you
coudn't tell them apart.




People do this to fool the public, and make money with little or
no investment.


Yes, I'm sure some do - to flog at car boots and round the pubs....

It's much much bigger than that.


So where are they sold then?



Very few people can differentiate between a
genuine and counterfeit CD.

I disagree but irrelevant anyway...

It's relevant because if they knew they were paying money for
a couunterfeit product they might not buy it. Very few people
can differentiate between a pirate CD and the genuine article.


I don't agree. Where is this confusion taking place - in a brightly lit
music shop or in some dark car park behind a pub somewhere....???



A common phenomena now is that one child in a school class buys
a CD, and makes 40 copies for his/her classmates!! You don't have
to have a degree in applied maths to see there is something wrong
the-)


Iain, these unsubstantiated statements mean nothing to me. Express them
as
opinion or belief by all means, but don't push them to me as
'factual'....

Nothing unsubstantiated here. Read the BPI annual report.


Are you kidding?



What, if piracy ended tomorrow you think the price of CDs would come
down?

Hopefully, who knows.



If the price of CDs came down, do you think they would sell more of them?



Ironic that some of the means to copy this stuff is manufactured/marketed
by firms with a vested interest in producing the 'software'!! (Sony)

True.


In the case of CD's there are cheap and expensive labels.
The revenue of some companies in some areas would increase
20 fold if piracy were to be brought under control.



48% of all statistics are made up on the spot.....




Never said it wasn't. But, in my book, so is overpricing (ie 16 quid for
a
CD in the UK, 11 on the continent and 7 in the States for the same
item) -
although more commonly called a 'rip-off'.

No-one is forced to buy a product


'Take it or leave it'...???