. . . Or they can't afford it. So if it would be 1 cent per song, they would by it. Now that its $3 per song, they will never buy and therefore not cause any loss by copying.
Fair point. I wasn't sure that my first posting fully held water. I agree, finding it too expensive is basically the same thing.
I think it will be harder to argue with my second ha'arah:
Say copying music was totally assur and I didn't have an ipod full of music "i-wasn't-interested-in-buying-but-am willing-to-listen-to-now-and-then" without all that free "junk-i-wouldn't-pay-for" my car rides would be awfully quiet. I think I would stop in to the local judaica store and pick out the least "not-worth-paying-for" CD to make the car ride interesting.
No?
So that new mediocre CD that just came out and you promptly ripped to your collection but are certain you wouldn't actually pay for.... are you really sure?
Are you sure you are buying as many CDs with the invention of a CD burner as if the technology didn't exist?