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Consider this, Sony is a multi – billion dollar corporation with their hands in all the pots, they licenses and buy intellectual property. They mass produce music, video’s and video games for pennies per unit and then sell their 30 cents worth of plastic and paper media for $12-80 or more. They build and sell the playback hardware as well as RECORDING hardware and BLANK MEDIA. They truly have all their basses covered. It cost many times more for a pirate to burn one copy than it cost Sony to mass produce that one original copy !!

This same company has been know to buy back their own media from retailers when prices got too low and have copies destroyed rather than have the price lowered. They allow their retailers a very small markup on media/software and next to no markup on hardware. I know some business owners and I can tell you that Sony retailers have no say whatsoever on what they sell.

Ever see that Infomercial where they are “giving you a free” PC tutorial CD? You only pay a Shipping and Handling charge of like $6.95 !? They have these CD made for well under 50 cents including packaging, I’m sure it costs less than a buck to mail, and another dollar or even 2 (not likely even a buck in reality) for labor and their still making a fortune, for a stupid Video CD!!

In a world like this, with the music industry crying about imaginary profit losses from people downloading and sharing mostly crappy quality MP3’s, sampled off of their TV sets full of compression artifacts. Billionaire corporations controlling the courts and changing laws, taking away our freedoms so a small percentage of the worlds rich can get richer. When it comes to ethics, you need only to answer to your own conscious In this crooked world .