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Music Industry Pays $67M Fine For Price Fixing
Krelnik writes "Reuters is reporting that the music industry is paying a $67.4 Million settlement to end a lawsuit where they were accused of artificially inflating CD prices at retail. Yeah, P2P is causing their problems. Sure, sure it is. Here's the story at Reuters UK."
Let's write a law to make it legal to hack* RIAA lawyers when we suspect them of "pirating" our money.
* hack meaning to chop into little pieces
Yeah right. When hell... hey wait a minute - massive climatic change? Maybe there is hope...
Have you seen the headquarters of Sony Records? Potted palm trees aren't cheap, mister. Think of the trees!
There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
Max V.
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The real problem here is that anybody is paying for a Britney CD.
Understand, in this case I'm most definitely not advocating piracy.
~Idarubicin
What if Celine's latest album is crap?
That kind of question is a priori.
Buying a Dell computer is equivalent to dropping the soap in a prison shower.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I have made a serious error in my calculations - I forgot to include the artists' royalties that they'll have to pay. So, instead of $1,114,000.00 cost to the record industry, make that $1,114,003.65. My apologies for the oversight.
Sigs are bad for your health.
It's less than Madonna's first big contract with Sony. It's a small fraction of Michael Jackson's contracts. It's not much more than Mariah Carey got.
It's Tommy Mottola's wall-safe money.
The lawyers get a third, the rest of us get 50-cents-off coupons for Chicago MCMXVIIIII.
Heh. If you mod me down, I'll introduce you to my sister.
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I have a theory that what geeks need is a large advertising budget. We need commercials on TV that tells our side of the story.
Imagine it...
View of a long haired pale man hunched over a keyboard
Johnny is a hacker. But he doesn't live in his parent's basement. He doesn't work for an evil foreign government. He's not part of a group that spells their name with numbers. No, Johnny works for the record companies. Under a proposed US law, Johnny will have the right to hack into your computer and break it. The record companies are very concerned with getting the ability to hack your computer - even though they aren't concerned about lower CD prices. They were recently convicted of overcharging Americans roughly half a billion dollars for CDs.
See, we need an agency to mix the FUD our way. :)
OK, so the RIAA owes me. They can subtract all the music I have "pirated" from the bill. I bet they still owe me money.
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