CD-R's

From: "Trueman, Mark" <****@Broner.co.uk>

>When will people stop trying to charge $20 plus for a cdr copy of
>something. The cd-rs cost about $1 each and the time taken to create the
>images to press onto cd is very small (it can take a couple of hours to
>produce a cd image that can be used to write hundreds of cd's)
>We need to stop these ripoff merchants

well - it all depends on the definition of "time taken", imo.
if they are just copying a CD from the source to the CDR, then
the "time taken" should be almost negligible, ie: not being able to
use their PC or CDROM drive for about 25 minutes - the effort required
is near zero, imo - all the hard work is done.

however - if songs have been processed, altered, re-mastered, or whatever
that usually requires some time (i have taken HOURS just to get one song just
"so" on occasion, although i havent burned any CDRs though).

so if a lot of work has gone into creating the songs themselves then i dont think
i would mind paying a small "fee" on top - i bought a set of 5 CDRs from a friend
of mine in Northampton (hi jon, if yer out there hehe).. who MP3'ed stack loads
of stuff. theres no way i could be arsed to rip all the tracks of CD and do it
myself (i didnt have some of the material anyway! hehe) - so i didnt mind paying
over the cost of 5 CDRs.

like i said - it depends on the definition of "time taken". :)

catcha :)

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