Reply #78: 99 cents is high compared to free

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The problem is that people now think it is their right to download music. The only reason they think so is that it is very easy to do and it's very hard to get caught.

When adjusted for inflation, CD prices went down a lot over the years. It's just that people got used to stealing them, so they now think it's overprice. In the past if a CD was too expensive, they just didn't buy it. The same type of system would work if there wasn't the free alternative.

The big argument before was that it's not worth paying $15 dollars for a CD wasn't worth it for just one song. With 99 cent songs, this argument isn't valid anymore.