Music industry says pirated CDs make everyone suffer.
> The Recording Industry 2005 Commercial Piracy Report, prepared by the
> International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), paints a
> stark picture when it comes to global pirating of music compact discs.
> According to the report, illegal traffic in pirated music was worth
> $4.6 billion last year, 34% of all CDs are illegal, and fake
> recordings outsell legitimate recordings in 31 countries around the > world.
Oh boo freakin' hoo. You could contain my tears over his in a thimble.
Perhaps if:
a) They didn't rake us over the coals wrt pricing of CD's;
and
b) They put material on CD's that matched peoples tastes a bit better.
I make custom CD's from my iTunes library all the time. On occasion I'll give one to a friend. So now I'm the worlds biggest pirate.
And to anyone using iTunes in a workgroup setting there's MyTunes Redux. It snags the packets of iTunes shares and downloads the song files to your library.