UK Music Industry Stomps on Imported CD Seller

Posted by michael on Thursday January 22, 2004 @03:09AM from the no-price-arbitrage-for-you dept.

MungoBBQ writes "The Independent is one among the many news sources reporting that BPI, the British equivalent of RIAA, has made a large online retailer of CDs, DVDs and games, comply with their demands to raise prices by 2 pounds per CD sold on their website. The retailer, CD-WOW, based in Hong-Kong, agreed to raise their prices offered to their UK customers to avoid legal battles. CD-WOW caters to many other European countries, where people have been enjoying their cheaper CD prices. However, it can now be assumed that other national recording industry organizations will make CD-WOW and other online retailers jack up their prices to 'better compare' with the local prices in each country."

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Lets hear it for fair competition by nurb432 · 2004-01-22 05:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Isn't this a prime example of a monopoly exerting unfair control over the market?

Isn't anyone in the government going to wake the hell up?

They went after ATT, Microsoft.. why are they afraid of the RIAA?

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