Again, as I said before, saying that empeg costs $1500 to produce and sell, that it is worth $1500, and that I can afford it at $1500 are three totally different things. I could just barely afford it, but I never thought it was not worth it.

As for music piracy, I think that this board overall supports reasonable mixture of 'musicians have to eat' and fair use. So, guys who admit at having large downloaded MP3 collections were let know that most people here don't look at that favorably (but we generally avoid flame wars). Most people seem to think that mixes one of our members produces could be tolerated as 'fair use', and almost all are very strongly opinoinated concerning RIAA attempts at restricting our right to use CDs we bought as we please.