Same tune for less

In the old days, my grandfather used to tell me, an ice cream cost one cent. What a time that must have been, I thought when he took me by the hand to get an ice cream for a guilder, I could have bought 100! That was back in the day when I had not yet made the acquaintance with the big monster called inflation, the fattener of global prices.

Website walletpop.com has created an overview of products that, since 2010, instead of having increased in price, have become cheaper. The reason why this piqued the interest of futureofcopyright has nothing to do with the Big Mac or domestic airfares becoming cheaper. Our interest was triggered by the silver disc, the music CD. That product has, in the United States at least, become 27% cheaper than in the year 2000.

The post does not go so far as to provide an explanation for the significant negative price hike. Without a doubt, the increased competition with online trade (both in CDs and in digital files) and widespread file sharing play a part.

It is an American study, so the figures may differ in other countries.