Why all this fuss about p2p music exchange with no cost?

Question

When a person buys a book and passes it to friends, or second hand book shops sell them the author gets no extra royaltys. So why not music. It's exactly the same

Answer 1

I totally agree, but the music industry is much bigger and more powerful (and greedy) than the book trade.

Answer 2

Greed & stupidity they obviously think they should still be allowed to sell an item that costs around 53p to produce at extortionate prices  

Answer 3

Technically speaking sharing your book around is not what they want either - it's just really difficult to police.  If you lent your CD to someone else they would find this difficult to police too - the problem comes when you do it electronically over the net.  The sad fact is that big brother is watching you so they know that you've done it.