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Ring-Tone Barons? Japanese Record Companies Raided
PuceBaboon writes "
The Asahi Shimbun is reporting that officers from the Fair Trade
Commission raided several major record companies in Japan, including
Sony Music Entertainment, Toshiba EMI and Avex, on suspicion of
creating a monopoly for the purpose of maintaining artificially high
prices on... telephone ring-tone tunes."
You got to be kidding.
Failed it you have. Weak in the Force you are. Greased Yoda I have up my ass!
ROFL
hahah take that you damn dirty sand niggers
w0rd up, GNAA!
Tokyo's not a city, but a prefecture...I live here...Now if there's anything that can be done about the rest of the criminally high prices in every other aspect of life in Japan. The economy here will never recover because so many families have a few million in the bank, but are afraid to spend it. Nothing's moving. The government wants more kids so they'll have more tax-payers, but not only is the cost prohibitively high, standards for pollution levels, building safety, etc. are in the gutter with all the other corruption...
I'm actually willing to risk my "excellent" karma on this. This article is so irrelevant, I'm going to post Beck lyrics:
The Golden Age
--------------
Put your hands on the wheel
Let the golden age begin
Let the window down
Feel the moonlight on your skin
Let the desert wind
Cool your aching head
Let the weight of the world
Drift away instead
These day I barely get by
I don't even try
It's a treacherous road
With a desolated view
There's distant lights
But here they're far and few
And the sun don't shine
Even when it's day
You gotta drive all night
Just to feel like you're ok
These days I barely get by
I don't even try
Don't get me wrong. I hate the RIAA too, but c'mon!