CD Price-Fixing Suit Ruling

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Posted by michael on Saturday June 14, 2003 @05:43AM 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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I dunno... by Huxley_Dunsany · 2003-06-14 05:45 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm still waiting for my check from Bill Gates... I must've forwarded that email to a billion people! :-) Huxley
$13.00! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-14 05:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Now I can go and buy another CD!
1. Re:$13.00! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-14 05:59 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  In other news, RIAA announced a new minimum price of $14 per CD.
Wow! by The+Bungi · 2003-06-14 05:47 · Score: 5, Funny

$13.00? I'd probably get more for recycling my stash of AOL CDs.
free money? by rot26 · 2003-06-14 05:47 · 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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RIAA Numbers by Paddyish · 2003-06-14 05:49 · 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.
The heck with that, I want lower prices. by drdanny_orig · 2003-06-14 05:53 · 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 WordsÂ® let alone Madonna's.

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I'll be honest by Faust7 · 2003-06-14 06:00 · 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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Re:They've already weaseled a way around it by lactose99 · 2003-06-14 08:39 · 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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FSF? by siskbc · 2003-06-14 11:08 · 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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