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Nintendo Fined $143m for Price-Fixing
kyz writes "The BBC is reporting that the anti-trust branch of the European Commission has fined Nintendo 146 million euros (roughly $143m) for preventing its distributors from selling games as cheaply as they are sold in other European Union countries. For example, "prices of Nintendo products were up to 65% higher in Germany or the Netherlands than in Britain".
Now if only the EU could do this with Microsoft, Levi Strauss and the MPAA members..."
The real crime is that shitfest Star Trek: Voyager. Holy shit does that show fucking suck. Sure, I thought it was my lucky fucking day when they ended the series, but now it's even worse. Now it's on every day instead of once a week. Holy shit!
Endless re-runs of that whiny bitch Harry Kim, whining about some wuss-crap while that shitfucker Chakotay talks about some spiritual native indian bullshit. Why doesn't that fucker just admit that he likes drinking whisky and gambling, like every other fucking indian? Jesus Christ.
And don't even get me started on that dyke Janeway. I bet she'd love to assimilate Seven of Nine's pussy with her tongue.
if you don't fucking like it, don't fucking buy it! the govt can fuck off.
MOD PARENT UP
thats sonic, numbnuts - owned by sega.
much more accurate if he jumped in the air, ate a mushroom and some flowers and started throwing fireballs at them through his nose.
... hi bingo
Funny. As a matter of fact, I owned two NES decks, and I never received either of these, nor did I hear word from it.
I wonder if you got your mod points simply because people believed you, or if you're really telling the truth. Provide some links, please.
I think it will become evident that video games are part of the art of this age. In that context it is baffling that Europe has little influence in the current artistic project. Europe speaks better English and has longer historical ties to the United States, yet has eschewed participating in an industry whose size now is greater than that of the movie industry. Japanese, not European artists, are in their games and anime successfully fusing both Western and Eastern culture into the new world youth culture.
Fines for unfair trade practices do nothing to address the real problem, which is that Europe is not producing for itself its own fresh supply of culture. How is this possible given Europe's history, tradition, and diversity?
There is imbalance here which is not good for humanity. Social welfare systems cannot be the ultimate goal, statis cannot be the objective. The argument must be that in comfort creativity and discovery are enhanced. We must find a way to escape the paradox that Orson Welles stated when he said, "In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
HAHAHAH! Oh you are so fucking dumb. Listen numbnuts...... YOU ARE WRONG!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHA. Why don't you think before typing, numbnuts. You miserable piece of shit. You make me wanna puke.
hahaha
you numbnut idiot bastard.
......eeexxcepptt it's quite a bit worse to murder someone?
You got free shit, dont' complain.
Although now that I think about it, why wasn't Nintendo ordered to price their games reasonably as well?
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?