[LINK] $60 million music piracy operation and economics

[Tim O'Leary]

At 02:20 PM Monday 28/04/2003 +1000, Tim O'Leary wrote:
>[A side note about something that is always ignored in downloading 
>discussions: if that aforementioned teenager is over the family BigPond 
>broadband limit for the month it would cost about 15c a MB to download 
>anything. Assuming an MP3 compression to one third the size of a 650MB 
>music CD then 220MB of Radiohead MP3s @15c = $33 costs - I make no 
>detailed mention of the dreadful sound quality of compressed music at 
>these compression levels.]

After reading Robin's post I realise I am hopelessly out of touch with MP3s.

1:10 is probably the best it gets online and could even be 1:14 or more for 
crappy ones..

So at those rates it is about what Robin said ~60MB for a 650MB music CD.

Over limit costs on BP then  are:

@15c a MB - 60MB X 15c= $9 a CD of MP3 music.

Still not free.

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