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

 RJT> Phil Marlowe wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 
 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...

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

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

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

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

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


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