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Music Industry Pays $67M Fine For Price Fixing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 30, 2002 @02:27PM from the innocent-whistling dept.

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."

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I wonder by kz45 · 2002-09-30 14:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

what this means for the future of open source in the music industry?
Sorry guys and gals but I have to.... by siliconshock.com · 2002-09-30 14:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Imagine a beowulf clusters of fines on the Music Industry!!!

*smacking sound of a large trout up against my head* +2 funny
Re:MORON! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 15:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

God, you're a fucking idiot!

Listen to yourself

Better quality music so you can fucking steal it! You little twit, if I was the music industry I'd come over to your house and eat your fucking balls for breakfast.
-1, troll? Empty out your crack pipe, dipshit by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 15:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This is a valid point. Not that valid points deserve any sort of discussion... this is slashdot after all. .crispy
Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-30 16:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You obviously completely missed his point....