Australian Court Doubles CD Importers' Fines

Posted by michael on Friday August 22, 2003 @12:55AM from the drop-in-the-bucket dept.

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.

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cd's are bad by Flingles · 2003-08-22 01:06 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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court number by IFF123 · 2003-08-22 01:08 · Score: 4, Funny

$A2 million fine?
-- must be some computer friendly judge to pass the fine in hex notation.

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