From: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:49:32 +0800
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Subject: Cheap tapes vs expensive CD's (Way off topic)
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[ No longer Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com ]

> Isn't it odd that when music is sold, CD's are MORE expensive than cassette 
> tapes, even though you _know_ that the manufacturing cost of CD's is less?

Perceived value-add of digital recordings (more faithful reproduction,
longer life, etc.).  It is assumed that, over time, such discrepancies
will diminish as more competition show up.  Meanwhile, you get effects
like the Chinese "stealing" American intellectual property for a song.

Ern