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Re:FLAC 1.3.4 by chrisseaton on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:05AM (#30439189)
This’ll be because since 2016 it’s now expected you’ll stream more media than you’ll did back then, so not much much storage needed.
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Re:FLAC 1.3.4 by ChuckNorris89 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:15AM (#30439615)
That doesn't make sense of why the prices increased so much despite storage offering stagnation while NAND flash getting cheaper.

Any way you slice it it's still price gouging.

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Re:FLAC 1.3.4 by chrisseaton on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:50AM (#30439801)
Price gouging has a legal meaning and means raising prices in an emergency. Charging more than you’d happen to like isn’t ‘price gouging’.
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Re:FLAC 1.3.4 by ChuckNorris89 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:17AM (#30439947)
I meant price gouging from the consumers' perspective, not being pedantic about the legal meaning of it.
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Re:FLAC 1.3.4 by chrisseaton on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @08:52AM (#30440912)
So what is price gouging to you? Just being asked to pay more than you’d like to? Then it’s a meaningless term - I’d always like to pay less.
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Re:FLAC 1.3.4 by ChuckNorris89 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:14AM (#30441129)
>Just being asked to pay more than you’d like to?

No, I already explained above why I consider it price gouging.

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Re:FLAC 1.3.4 by chrisseaton on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:36AM (#30441402)
Because they make a profit margin that you'd prefer was smaller? That’s just commerce, and we'd always prefer people charged smaller profit margins.

Are you 'gouging' your employer by asking for the highest salary you can get away with? Of course not. It's a market price.

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Re:FLAC 1.3.4 by ChuckNorris89 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:32AM (#30442097)
You missed the point completely.
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