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UK Music Industry Stomps on Imported CD Seller

Posted by michael on 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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  1. What kind of nerd are you ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Watch this...
    The very fat with his sweater in his pants in the middle or the bearded one on the right ?

    I cannot believe you could be one of the others, otherwise you'd still be eating your mom's pancakes at home.

  2. Two words for BPI, RIAA etc. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FUCK OFF!

  3. Secret CD-Wow trick to getting money off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is a secret trick for getting extra money off your purchase at cd-wow.com.

    There is a method for getting a voucher that will give you some money off, and then a further little trick that will get you one pound sterling off the reduced price.

    I could tell you how to do it, but I won't.

  4. Re:How about offering 2 pounds off to UK customers by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here's an interesting one for you. I did some work on a White Stripes video middle of last year (Seven Nation Army) - a fantastic piece directed by Michel Gondry. The budget for the video promo for that sigle track was OVER 375000 UKP, the cost of recording the ENTIRE ALBUM it was taken from was UNDER 15000 UKP.

    Explain to me again about the cost of producing records?

    --
    That was classic intercourse!
  5. Re:this is more complicated than most people think by lxs · · Score: 0, Troll

    So, if people import stuff from China, they get it cheaper AND we all get less advertising shoved down our throats? That sounds like a win-win situation to me.