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Australian Court Doubles CD Importers' Fines
anti-fsck writes "Australia's Full Federal Court today upheld a lower court's decision that music labels Warner Music and Universal Music had engaged in anti-competitive practices in the .au CD market by threatening retailers who imported cheaper CDs. The court also doubled the labels' fine - and the fines for senior label executives - to more than $A2 million. w00, cheap CDs at last? Now if we can only get US-zoned DVDs legalised as well ..." Another reader notes that the U.S. government is busy trying to get Australia to change its laws to increase the profits of U.S. record companies.
No, $A2 million dollars = 162 million dollars :P
is run across the border like with Canada for drugs for the lower prices! I'll start the bus service!
no wait...
In the words of taco-man
"I haven't bought a cd since 1999. Not because I download songs, but quite frankly RIAA, your music sucks donkey balls.
Karma: -2^0.5 . Mainly due to the imbibing of dihydrogen monoxide
$A2 million fine?
-- must be some computer friendly judge to pass the fine in hex notation.
Who took my tinfoil hat?
You know they're serious when they have to make up new numbers to describe the amount of the fine!
Either that or they fined them in hex dollars (works out to $162 million).
"Damn, now we have to buy off ANOTHER government, time to sue more file sharers and blame it on them"
Let's get one thing perfectly clear, I did not vote for George W Bush, and I do not endorse what he does or says.
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Austrailian court needs more money for braces