<i>According to his logic, an audio cd should cost less than a dollar.</i><p>While I don't agree with the original post, this is not an argument against it.<p><i>Unfortunately in digital age, a consumer can get the product by illegal means even if they can't afford it and producer doesn't really have a way to stop this illegal behavior.</i><p>I agree, except I would say "fortunately".  Monopolists should not have a legal right to their market, even if the market (for Metallica songs, for example) didn't exist before they began selling in it.