Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 -=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Phil Marlowe <=-

 RJT> Phil Marlowe wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 LE>  
 PM> With the prices of some of them, they should be recorded on gold. 
 PM> Looked at a 6 CD set of Lester Young in a store last month -- 
 PM> supposedly on sale -- and I thought: Hey, just what I need -- til I
 PM> turned it around and saw the price tag -- $219.99.

 RJT> Heh.  I've seen some which were more than that.  We were in a
 RJT> bookstore the other day,  and my granddaughter noticed that one shelf
 RJT> in the music/video section had glass in front of it.  You needed to
 RJT> get a clerk to open that one up for you.  I think the price you
 RJT> mention is about the lowest of what was in there,  some of the stuff
 RJT> was over $300!  I'm not that much of a fan of any of those tv shows or
 RJT> whatever that I'd pay that kind of money,  unless I had *way* more on
 RJT> hand than I needed...

 LE> Well, I paid that sort of money, but it was for a set of DVDs. The
 LE> entire run of The Avengers. Well, the years that had Emma Peel. 16
 LE> DVDs.. 

These were DVDs as well,  I can't recall how many in a box,  but typically
a whole season or maybe several in one box.

 > Yeah, the record companies probably look at this as a way to sell 
 > more stuff.  But once you've bought a copy, you have the right to 
 > enjoy it, right?

 LE> They'd like to change that. 

I'm sure they would.

 LE> Remember DIVX? The "pay per viewing" DVD-like gizmo? When you 
 LE> bought a disk, you got some number of "free" viewings. But only on 
 LE> *your* machine. Try playing it on a friend's and you had to use a 
 LE> credit card to pay for it and "authorize" it.

Crap.

 LE> And when your "free" viewings ran out on your machine, you had to
 LE> buy more. 

 LE> They've got similar schemes they'd like folks to buy into for
 LE> downloaded music. 

 LE> Basicly, they want you to have to pay for every use. 

Yeah,  well.  They can keep it at all they like with these silly attempts, 
and if they even come close to implementing something that starts to look
like it'll work there will be ways around it all over the 'net,  in real
short order.  And even more tunes will find their way on to various sites
here and there all over the place.

Things are changing,  thanks to the technology we all love,  and the folks
who run record companies and similar outfits are gonna have to learn how to
deal with it.

Seen any legislation supporting the "rights" of buggy-whip makers lately?

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