Music downloads (Score 1)

Seems to me that by charging EVERYONE more for blank CDs, and the fact that the money goes to the recording industry on the assumption that buyers of blank CDs are criminals and going to illegally copy music CDs, then it ALSO seems to me that by us paying that money, we are buying a LICENCE to copy the music and so are rightly able to download it. Otherwise, don't charge EVERYONE extra for the blank CDs. The REAL problem is the record company's A&R men who encourage poor songs by the bands and songwriters who are signed to huge $$$ contracts to put out poor 'filler' on their artists' releases. The public buyer has been ripped off by poor garbage content and are pissed off about it. Half of the recording artists shouldn't be signed to those huge contracts when they only have one good song. It is simply the public fighting back. It is the record companies who are to blame.