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I personally find no problem with burning CD's if it's at your advantage. I am personally in a line of work that requires me to keep up with the latest web design software, so I am not going to purchase software in the thousands of dollars if it does not benefit me economically.
At the end of the day, whether or not a CD is purchased or is burned, it all sounds the same, it all works the same. Big business, corporations, record labels are in it for the big bucks. It just goes to show you that they don't give a rat's behind about the consumer, it's more about their bottom line. Now if Napster, KaZaa, Morpheus or any of the other file sharing programs benefitted financially from people downloading the software and burning music, then I would have a problem with it.
I'm proud to say that every piece of software on my computer was downloaded from the internet. My backup copy of Windows on my computer was burned on CD. I think it's high time that some of the corporate big bucks be put back into our pockets so that we can consider our bottom line.
Common sense dictates that I can purchase 100 blank CD's from Office Depot for $30.. That's roughtly $0.33 per CD. If Microsoft sells Windows 2000/XP in the hundreds of dollars... What's more economically feasible for me... $0.33 or $300-400. Hell it's simple..
Peace..
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