Re: Patents, Royalties and other Scams...???


"Keith G" <keith_g@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Iain M Churches" <tael@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Keith G" <keith_g@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
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>>> The MI works to the following set of rules:
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>>> Rule 1 - We will shaft you (CD prices in the UK etc.)
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>> Have you considered that in some areas of the world (the former
>> Eastern bloc, and the FarEast) that pirate/counterfeit recordings
>> account for 95% of sales?
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> Only two things make 'counterfeiting' viable in my book - overpricing
> and/or rareity...

But even these circumstances do not make it permissible.
One can produce counterfeit CDs and colour copy the inlay
cards for a few pence each. This is an incredibly attractive
proposition for some, especially when they do not have to
make any outlay whatsoever regarding the cost of the original
recording.

People do this to fool the public, and make money with little or
no investment. Very few people can differentiate between a
genuine and counterfeit CD.

Interestingly enough, one of the most serious breaches of law is
the using of a company trade-mark without permission. I have
seen classical CDs for sale in Moscow, on the Decka label.

A common phenomena now is that one child in a school class buys
a CD, and makes 40 copies for his/her classmates!! You don't have
to have a degree in applied maths to see there is something wrong
there:-)
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>> Thinks what an effect that must have on prices of the genuine
>> article.
>

> None whatsoever - the 'rigidity' of CD prices (pitched at whatever the
> clowns in different countries will pay - UK being the highest AFAIK) is
> greater than the rock of Gibraltar....

I think it would have a considerable effect. Currently the record
industry is spending huge amounts of money trying to fight piracy,
and also produce anti-piracy encryption systems.
The consumer pays the bill.
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>>>
>>> Rule 2 - You will not shaft us....
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>> Piracy/counterfeiting is just that.
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> Yes...
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> (I didn't say their rules were never inviolated... ;-)
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> Iain, I've been down this road too many times now - AFAIC the whole
> 'piracy' thing is fuelled by a greedy MI who can't/won't wake up to the
> fact that life's changed since the advent of the WWW.
>
Sorry, but whichever way to care to look at it, piracy/counterfeiting , be
it of a book,a painting or a recording, is theft.


Iain




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