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From: cahunt@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu (Charles Hunt)
Subject: Re: Adult rip offs
Message-ID: <1994Mar25.155718.6442@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu>
Organization: Oklahoma State University Computer Center
References: <rmohns.764567163@black.clarku.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 15:57:18 GMT
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In article <rmohns.764567163@black.clarku.edu> rmohns@black.clarku.edu (Joker) writes:
>
>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.
>


Probably because when you buy the encyclopedia you are thinking with
your head as opposed to the other anatomical parts that dictate your
purchase of adult cd's.


-- 
Charles A. Hunt				Oklahoma State University
					Department of Physics
        				Crystal Growth Laboratory
cahunt@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu		Stillwater, OK 74078