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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. When.... by Nagatzhul · · Score: 5, Insightful

    do they lower the prices?

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  2. Wow, a whole $13 by Schlemphfer · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I'm looking forward to receiving my $13. I bought a hundred or so CDs between 1988 and last year, so I figure this check covers about 1% of the total I've been overcharged. In any case, the recording industry will never get another nickel from me. The RIAA disgusts me so much that I've stopped buying new CD's entirely. Now I just buy used, listen to it a while, and sell it. The money I save goes to seeing the musicians I like perform locally, and sometimes to buying higher margin stuff at their shows, like T-shirts and so forth.

    We've got the recording industry in a vulnerable spot. It's time to withhold cash from them and go in for the kill.

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  3. what ever you do, don't buy a cD! by pioneer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah yeah... 13$ is about the price of a CD... so whatever you don't feed it right back into the machine that is the RIAA... instead go donate it to a good cause like the couple below (no affiliation)

    boycott-riaa.com

    digital-consumer.org

    do something useful and fight this idiotic RIAA crap!

    1. Re:what ever you do, don't buy a cD! by linuxbaby · · Score: 5, Insightful
      That's like saying 'Never buy software' because you don't like Microsoft.

      At CD Baby we work directly with 38,000 musicians (NO record labels) that are selling their music direct to the world.

      Just like we should all support the independent programming projects when possible, you should support independent music so that these big record labels will have to reinvent themselves or die.

      Hurt the record labels, not the musicians themselves. Do a musician a favor. Bypass the labels. Buy direct . (My little store alone has paid over $3 million directly to musicians in the last couple years.)

      (See our flavor galleries for some real creative browsing.)

  4. Only $13? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I own about 500 CDs. $13.00 works out to about two and a half cents per CD. Is that all they were gouging me for?

  5. $13? by NoInfo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Umm, only $13? Good thing 'we' 3.5 million people settled this case.

    The real winners here, of course, are the lawyers. A large portion of the remaining $23.3 million goes to them.

    Just a hunch, but I imagine it comes out to a tad more than $13 for each for them.

    IANAL, but right now I wish I was.

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