Sharing Copyrighted Music

[Ace]

That's not economies of scale. That's when you produce a lot of a certain good and can thus produce it for a lower per-unit price. The $10/album deal is just to encourage you to buy a whole album by offering a lower price than what individual songs would cost.

[The Ghost of Bondo]

That is a bit of a semantics argument.

[Ace]

Not really, it is just a bit of me being right. Economies of scale is a basic term for economics with a clear meaning.

[jn.loudnotes]

Well, if you really want to argue semantics, you could say that producing a lot of digital recordings is less expensive per unit than producing only a few.  If you record an album, it costs you less in total that it would cost you to produce 15 singles, and you can therefore offer it for a lower cost.

Either way, it's not the best use of the term, but it's not completely wrong either.

Middle road triumphs agan  

[The Ghost of Bondo]

Ace, go look at my post again..."Sort of an economies of scale thing."

I said sort of, not it is.  So it is not at all a matter of you being right and me being wrong.

Consumers are just as much a part of the economy as producers, and any economic activity that lowers the per-unit cost is an economy of scale, whether production side or consumer side.  So economically speaking, it is sort of an economies of scale thing.