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Antitrust Investigation Into Music Companies' Online Efforts

Posted by Hemos on from the just-sniffing-the-ground dept.

Thanks to Dan Gillmor for the head's up concerning the investigation by the DoJ into MusicNet and pressplay. These are the two big services being put together by Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music, EMI Group and BMG. This follows on from an investigation launched by the EU this past June. This is prelim work but we'll see what happens.

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  1. interesting note by unformed · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    One record company executive fumed, ``For the past five years, this industry has been endlessly investigated by the government. They find nothing. And it costs us a fortune.'' The executive, speaking on condition of anonymity, added, ``It's a handy whipping boy.''

    Hmmm, I think you could replace record with software and government with BSA and it'd still be factually correct.

    So I wonder how it feels to be on the other side of the fence this time?

  2. sweet by SaturnSS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sweet

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  3. Re:fp by hexman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    don't you have anything better to do than to troll this board?