Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!olivea!news.bu.edu!noc.near.net!black.clarku.edu!black.clarku.edu!rmohns From: rmohns@black.clarku.edu (Joker) Subject: Adult rip offs Message-ID: Organization: Clark University (Worcester, MA) Date: 25 Mar 94 03:46:03 GMT Lines: 22 Food for Thought: Why is it that a CD-ROm encyclopedia, which took lots of time of lots of people to create (enter data, create hypertext links, index, write a decent search engine, scan adn prepare pictures, ditto for video and sound, etc etc etc), goes for as little as $40, while a collection of pictures of naked people having sex, which took one person simply the time to download the GIFs and master them, goes for $60? It doesn't make much sense. Thread away. Rob rmohns@black.clarku.edu