From: "Geo" 

Do they count the lemo and the bag of coke as production costs?

Geo. (what's the cost to produce a system administrator)

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> I guess you don't take into account the cost to CREATE the material that's
> on the physical disk.  I guess that's produced for free then.
>
> --
>
> Glenn M.
> "Bob.Ackley ." 
wrote in message
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> > Replying to a message of Mike N. to Geo:
> >
> > >> Now there is an interesting thought. Why doesn't every laptop come
with
> > >> an FM radio built in? I mean how much could it cost, $5
extra if it
> > >> includes it's own antenna?
> >
> > MN>   The music industry is terrified of people recording music on their
> > MN> PCs - particularly with HDRadio coming out.
> >
> > The music industry has been terrified of people recording music since
> > reel-to-reel
> > tape recorders became cheap enough for ordinary mortals to buy one.
Only
> > the
> > technology has changed over the years.  Since the actual cost of
producing
> > a
> > vinyl
> > LP or an audio CD is less than $1 each (not counting royalty fees) it
> > seems to
> > me
> > that the way for the industry to reduce unauthorized duplication of the
> > material would
> > be to sell them for $5 or less.
> >
> > --- FleetStreet 1.19+
>
>

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