Re: Wishing You Endless Vistas of Microsoft Joy in the New Year

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 03:36:18 +0000 (UTC), abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Anthony de
Boer - USEnet) wrote:

That "media tax" seems to be a pre-invitation to people to stuff such
media with whatever they can grab; it's tantamount to an endorsement
of piracy.

It's more a realisation that their business model is becoming less and
less sustainable, and a desperate grab for undeserved monies from people
they've never met.

This is like me trying to charge the entire world $5 extra on every can of
paint anyone buys for any reason at all, just because someone *might* use
it to paint a copy of something my neighbour painted twenty years ago and
that I sold a couple of prints of.


-SteveD
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