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One Man's Check From The RIAA

Posted by timothy on from the too-little-too-late-too-bad dept.

c0rk writes "I received my $13.86 check today. This was my claim in the Compact Disk Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation. I wrote in detail about the letter/check I received here in my blog and posted a readable image of said documentation (not the check though...sorry). Score 1 for the consumer!"

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  1. How much for JUST the rights to listen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't know about you, but I JUST want the right to download the song, no service from anyone. I was considering this before when I saw tapes in a record store. If the tape costs $10, and the CD costs $15, am I legally in the right to buy the tape, then download the tracks of the CD, and burn them to CD? Presumably some of the money spent on the tape goes to the actual production of the tape, so how much does it cost for just the right to listen?

    This new 'legitimate' downloading helps answer this, kind of. I'll use iTunes as an example.

    It costs $0.99 per song to download from a 'legitimate' music service.

    $0.33 go to Apple for their storing and serving the song. $0.66 go to the record label.

    My question is: Will they ever sell "licenses" to download songs at $0.66/song, and let you obtain the song however you please? (p2p)