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German Court Fixes Book Prices On Ebay

Posted by timothy on from the road-to-serfdom dept.

krez writes "Yesterday, a German court decided that it is illegal to sell books below the prices set by publishing houses. In the court's view, German books are exempt from EU free-market restrictions because they represent an "important cultural good". I guess this is what happens when the rights of collectives, and groups of peoples supersede the rights of the individual to do with his property as he/she sees fit. The implications of this could be far reaching, having an impact on your right to sell old CDs, DVDs, perhaps even art?"

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  1. Re:i can see it now. by Apiakun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great idea :) "We are not offering the following unreleased album in mp3 format. We are simply providing a collection of ones and zeros with which you can test your ISP's downstream connection. We insist that you not save this data upon completion of the network bandwidth test."

  2. Re:RTA by dmayle · · Score: 3, Funny

    Buy fantastic used books!!! Just Like New(TM)

  3. Germany is a socialist country by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It would be very unsocialist and not to mention discriminatory (which is banned under German law as a hate crime) to allow competition based on price because it would result in only popular books being sold and so a valuable work like Das Capital couldn't be sold in book stores because it has to make space for some drivel from a capitalist pulp writer.

  4. Buchpreisbindung by apachetoolbox · · Score: 1, Funny

    Buchpreisbindung
    Bush preisbindung
    Bush pres bindung
    Bush pres dung
    Bush president dung .... oohhh i see now.