It's a very nice world of music that
All the time Nina wishes for, unfortunately even if everyone in the world started
boycotting overpriced releases and downloaded all their music off the
internet, it would neither cause the collapse of the
Recording Industry Association of America nor any of it's non-
U.S. equivalents.
Why? Because although the industry's primary concern is gaining money from huge markups before it ever reaches the
distributor, it has enough sense to at least watch it's back. Since the
audio cassette tape commenced production, some of it's cost to YOU, the consumer, has always been returned to the associated industry to cover "
lost profits". You can bet your bottom dollar that as soon as writable and re-writable
CDs were available that part of the
tax went there as well; even if you only wanted to copy
data or use them as
frisbees.
Still, some companies have
reluctantly embraced the
internet, but it is not a
tried-and-true method of making money, so of course you can see why it's not more widespread. So, copy all you want, but I doubt you'll be getting rid of the bloated system any time soon.