Re: Re: This site is just out of touch. *crickets* Dude. Just a tip: the use of the phrase "crickets" is how you respond *AFTER A SIGNIFICANT PERIOD OF TIME* and no one has responded. It sorta loses its effectiveness when you do it minutes after the original statement before anyone's even had a chance to respond. Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This site is just out of touch. Way back when, oh without researching it, music was only performed. An artist got up in front of a person or group of people (or a herd of animals) and performed. Then one day, Thomas Edison I believe, used technology and recorded it. Actually preserved a reusable copy of that music where the artist was no longer needed to hear the music. When that technology became commercially viable, lawsuits happened all over the place a copyright law was amended to cover music so that although the artist "recorded" it once, they got money for every sale of a "copy" of the recording. There is even a push to get paid every time the recording is "performed" because, you know, they did spend a couple of hours 2 decades ago making that recording. In most every other field of industry, the cost of a product is controlled by the economic reality of marginal cost. But "record labels" banded together into societies and fixed the price at about $10.00 (don't quibble over a couple of cents here and there) and even