-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Marsh wrote: > On 5/8/07, Jostein Elvaker Haande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm left speechless, honestly... >> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070507-record-shops-used-cds-ihre-papieren-bitte.html >> > > RIAA crap aside, it's true that CDs are easy to steal and easy to > sell. A good friend's apartment was burgled a number of years ago, > and pretty much all that was stolen was his CD collection. Many of > those were difficult to find at that time, and the total value was > many hundreds of dollars, probably thousands ($15/CD adds up).
So, you believe the government should pass a law in order to prevent stealing of CDs. That's a good idea! Let's suggest a law to enforce a price of less than 2$/CD. This still gives the record industry and the musicians a margin of 50% on sales and will take care that the number of stolen and resold CDs is lowered by a much larger margin than by that law quoted in the article. I'm left speechless, honestly. Yes, sure we could make the world a saver place by just about eliminating any personal freedom that exists. If a moratorium of 30 days is justified for a 15$ CD, the same sort of reasoning would warrant a moratorium of 3000 days for a $1500 car and a moratorium of 10 years for a new car. The damage to society inflicted by stolen cars is certainly larger than that from CDs. What about laptops, umbrellas (mine got stolen some years ago, when I'd needed it!), money, credit cards... ??? > A 30 day moratorium on re-sale doesn't hurt the store that much, the > seller still gets paid, and if the discs were stolen, the victim has > some chance of recovery. That does not, of course, justify incredibly > invasive personal data collection. I'd suggest that the numbers of all the paper money that even Americans sometimes carry around gets registered. There is an embargo period on that, too, in order to make sure that the money wasn't stolen somewhere. Just my .02 Eurocents Johannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGQL2hC1NzPRl9qEURAr5yAJ9J4iJr22i7F0szxrMZJdytBV1QGQCfbJ8l tkWa64Co5J6b23nsOp4+hAA= =pK3w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
