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Price-Fixing Settlement Checks in the Mail
toastyman writes "Remember the Music Industry $67m settlement from way back in 2002? Seven months later than planned, your $13.86 check is finally on its way. In addition to the cash settlement, the defendants in the suit are also giving 5.6 million CD's to educational programs."
This is pretty great, but weren't the checks supposed to be a bit larger, closer to 20 (US) dollars?
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Not that I'm complaining, since it's great we finally get to stick it to those thieving bastards. My brothers and sisters all should be getting checks too, as well as my father. I for one am going to put the money towards a new hard drive to store all the music I download.
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Talk about a poke in the eye to the RIAA.
Oh yay! With that $25 tax refund, I'll be stylin'!
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5.6 million CD's to music-education programs? Did the government specify what counted as educational? They could have just used this as an opportunity to send more "Don't be an evil pirate, YAAAR!" propaganda to the schools.
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Well, at least it's nice to know that as punishment for their sins, record industry executives will have to settle for regular leather instead of the Corinthian leather on their next Lexus purchase.
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My inside sources say that those CDs are just a bunch of Soul Asylum and Living Colour records.
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$100,000.00
- $13.86
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$99986.14
Yipee!
Oh, wait, but if they actuallly had something resembling a worthwhile product, they probably never would have felt the need to engage in price-fixing. Silly me.
Maybe I'm wrong. But has any major label released anything halfway decent in the last ten years?
I want a check from the RIAA for the pain and suffering caused every time I've been within earshot of a Top 40 radio broadcast.
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and with this money i am going to go buy myself that new britteny album!!!!
In a related story, SCO has been forced to send checks for $699 each to every single Linux user.
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They're donating millions of CD's for educational purposes? I'd love to see what those albums are, and what their educational value truly is.
Come now, "I'm gonna get you naked by the end of this song" is at least as educational as Microsoft Encarta.
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"Yaaarrr.... well, I guess it started innocently enough. I thought I had power over me piracy, yarr I did, downloading a song heeeere, a dirge there. I still bought cd's, but I did so less and less. Eventually, yaaaar, it escalated to movies and the last games for me X-box. But it didn't stop there.
"Pretty soon I had me eyepatch and started swashbuckling. I spent all me bullion on spiced rum and me ship, a fine seafaring vessel she be. Yaarr, I thought I could stop, but now it's gone to far. Now I am stuck in an endless loop of pillage, sack and plunder, yaaarrr."
Remember kids, only pirates wear eyepatches. Don't be a pirate, YAAAR!
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Pull your head out.
You're doing the math wrong. Here are the equations you should use; it's actually quite simple:
If you are a customer and (potentially) screw a record company by infringing a copyright, you owe $150,000 times the number of incidents.
If you are a record company and (actually) screw a customer by illegally overcharging, you owe the customer $13 times the number of incidents, then divided by the total by the number of incidents.
You left out the denominator.
The inmates are running the asylum, the foxes are guarding the hen house, and so on and so forth.
True. But according to the article:
The settlement...also bars the defendants from entering future agreements to fix CD prices.
So you don't have to worry anymore.
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