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Originally Posted by setanta

Again, you persist with chopping and pasting other people's words. Can't you just answer without grabbing segments of my thoughts in attempt to big up yourself?

Did you expect me to change my posting style just to appease your childish little bouts of virtual paranoia? I have already been through this with you countless times. How on earth is dividing my argument meant to big me up?

Originally Posted by setanta

And standards will fall.... like I said it's incredibly expensive to produce and distribute music. You're whole argument is based on the fact that you want the little man to do well out of this but I can't see it happening if this trend continues. You'll see a drop in musicians wanting to release material and the quality will decrease too as they find it more and more difficult to break even in their investment. Cinematic Orchestra said it better than I ever will.

It is getting cheaper to produce music. Standards will increase as people will strive to make other people buy the product. Simple business economics. And like I already said, you can see the standards increasing with relation to the disc format all around.