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CD Price-Fixing Suit Ruling

Posted by michael on from the money-for-nothing dept.

Jay Langhurst writes "As the AP reported Friday, if you filed a claim before March 3, 2003 online or otherwise you'll be getting a gift in the mail from those monopolistic music companies in the form of a check for about $13!"

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  1. I dunno... by Huxley_Dunsany · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm still waiting for my check from Bill Gates... I must've forwarded that email to a billion people! :-) Huxley

  2. $13.00! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can go and buy another CD!

    1. Re:$13.00! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      In other news, RIAA announced a new minimum price of $14 per CD.

    2. Re:$13.00! by josephpate · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah and the best part is, 12 of them don't have to be crap!

    3. Re:$13.00! by akpcep · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ever heard of Kazaa?

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    4. Re:$13.00! by SoSueMe · · Score: 2, Funny

      Did he hurt himself when you "helped" him down from the window?

  3. Wow! by The+Bungi · · Score: 5, Funny

    $13.00? I'd probably get more for recycling my stash of AOL CDs.

  4. free money? by rot26 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Doh! Now I wish I had bought all my music instead of debo-ing it from napster. Just think what I could do with $13.

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  5. RIAA Numbers by Paddyish · · Score: 5, Funny

    What they forgot to mention was that the RIAA will claim that the $13 should actually be $0.13 due to the extreme value of a dollar.

    1. Re:RIAA Numbers by lar3ry · · Score: 2, Funny

      Business don't have to vote--voting is too unpredictable and the results can be skewed by those pesky PEOPLE that might actually come out and vote as well.

      Instead, it is much more effecient if businesses just purchase enough congress-critters and senators. And guess what, this strategy works!

      Now, if I could find a handy US Senator or two on eBay... [smile]

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  6. The heck with that, I want lower prices. by drdanny_orig · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that it's been decided they're guilty, can we expect a roll-back of prices? I wouldn't pay $19.99 list for God's Own Words® let alone Madonna's.

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  7. I'll be honest by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That $13.00 will go towards the monthly fee for my DSL, so that I may continue to use Kazaa.

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  8. Re:Suprinsing.. by Yi+Ding · · Score: 2, Funny

    How should I spend this moeny? Maybe we can start some sort of collective slashdot "Anti-RIAA/MPAA fund" out of all the checks we get. I doubt we could all agree on 1 use for the moeny that hurts the RIAA, but it's sure be nice (and fun).

    You should listen to the RIAA more often. All we would need to do is make a new p2p sharing program.

  9. Wow: $13... by skryche · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will I have my hair cut, get my car hot-waxed, or buy a $13 hammer?

    1. Re:Wow: $13... by mcmonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

      I vote for the $13 hummer

  10. 13 bucks by frovingslosh · · Score: 2, Funny

    gee, 13 bucks, no matter how many CDs I bought. And they obviously just keep on price fixing.

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  11. Re:$13? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because $13 doesn't buy a whole lot of law schooling?

  12. Re:They've already weaseled a way around it by lactose99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just want to point out that the new Metallica CD contains an 80 minute DVD containing live performances of the entire album. Typically "free" DVDs are about 20 minutes, so you get quite a deal with this.

    Beauty (and value, in this case) is in the eye of the beholder. I'd akin an 80 minute Metallica live DVD with getting a root canal by a epileptic dentist.

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  13. FSF? by siskbc · · Score: 4, Funny

    For only 70 cents a day, you can make sure that a needy child refers to Linux as GNU/Linux.

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