POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : An excellent screed on copyright, DRM, piano rolls, etc. : Re: An excellent screed on copyright, DRM, piano rolls, etc. Server Time
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  Re: An excellent screed on copyright, DRM, piano rolls, etc.  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 22 May 2009 17:10:00
Message: <4a1714a8@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> somebody <x### [at] ycom> wrote:
>> >   How much does it cost to create one CD of music?
> 
>> As much as it costs to create one CD of software. Pennies.
> 
>   I didn't ask "how much does it cost to create one CD?"
> 
>   I asked "how much does it cost to create one CD *of music*". There's
> a big difference. Making the music costs money.
> 
>   However, my point is that it costs *nowhere* near the budget of a
> blockbuster movie. Not even if you rent an entire opera house and an
> entire philarmonic orchestra (which is, btw, what most movies do
> *besides* everything else; the music CD doesn't need the "everything
> else").

And the price of CDs are *nowhere* near the price of movie DVDs either, but
I'll grant you it's quite a different factor.


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