We don't get fooled again
Mar. 14th, 2007 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoI understand that downloading entertainment is the Wave of the Future, and Web3.0 and all that. What I want to know is how long they plan to jack consumers for it, and when prices will begin to reflect actual costs and overhead.
Currently on iTunes a CD costs about as much it cost to go to WalMart and buy in a mortar and brick store. So the idea is that by not having to press the CD, create and print liner notes, mold a jewel case, package and then ship the CD, store the CD, pay old people to say hello as we enter the store and then pay surly register operators to ring us up, they have saved us an entire dollar. Maybe two.
Amazon has Crybaby on download for $14. It sells the actual DVD for $13. I repeat the above steps, except that it now costs them a dollar more to store the data on a hard drive.
And then they're surprized when people decide to do the same thing but illegally and for free.
Currently on iTunes a CD costs about as much it cost to go to WalMart and buy in a mortar and brick store. So the idea is that by not having to press the CD, create and print liner notes, mold a jewel case, package and then ship the CD, store the CD, pay old people to say hello as we enter the store and then pay surly register operators to ring us up, they have saved us an entire dollar. Maybe two.
Amazon has Crybaby on download for $14. It sells the actual DVD for $13. I repeat the above steps, except that it now costs them a dollar more to store the data on a hard drive.
And then they're surprized when people decide to do the same thing but illegally and for free.