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I'm not going to rail against the RIAA anymore in this thread (unless someone pushes more of my buttons...) I just want to leave a few facts for everybody else to chew on...
1) Copying and sharing a friend's casette has been deemed legal by the courts.
2) Recording companies get a kickback (tax? fee?) from the manufacturers of blank casettes.
3) Those same recording companies have signed a contract with those casette manufacturers that legaly binds them to charge more for CDs than casettes.
4) Not counting the actual case and packaging, which run about even, a mass produced CD costs about $0.02 while the casette costs over $1.00.
5) The recording companies get to pocket that extra dollar as easy profit. (Sometimes this is offset a little bit by including booklets, or special packaging, but don't think for a minute that that stuff ever raises the production costs by a dollar.) Yes, it is profit, they're not losing money on casette sales.
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