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RIAA Admits 70 Cent Price is 'In the Range'

Posted by Zonk on from the range-of-terror dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In its professed battle to protect the 'confidentiality' of its 70-cents-per-download wholesale price, the RIAA has now publicly filed papers in UMG v. Lindor in which it admits that the 70-cents-per-download price claimed by the defendant is 'in the range'.(pdf) From the article: 'The pricing data really may not be all that secret. Late in 2005, former New York Attorney General (and current Governor) Eliot Spitzer launched an investigation into price fixing by the record labels, alleging collusion between the major labels in their dealings with the online music industry. Gabriel believes that making the pricing information public would 'implicate [sic] very real antitrust concerns' as the labels are not supposed to share contract information with one another ... Beckerman argues in a letter to the judge that the only reason the labels want to keep this information confidential is to 'serve their strategic objectives for other cases,' which he says does not rise to the legal threshold necessary for a protective order. The proposed order would force the labels to turn over contracts with their 12 largest customers. Most details--such as the identities of the parties--would be kept confidential, but pricing information and volume would not.'"

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  1. YANAL by FallLine · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Slashdot:

    You Are Not A Laywer. So please stop being the tool for this lawyer and his celebrity seeking habits (what is this, the 2nd article published this week from this guy?).

    The issue du jour is about antitrust concerns for the plaintiff: if they communicate specific pricing to each other in any way they might be accused of price fixing. It may or may not be valid (and I'm sure it's a complicated legal matter). Seeing as how almost no one here has studied law and can offer intelligent commentary on this latest development, why don't you leave it up for the judge to decide? I also don't think the ~70 cents estimate is new knowledge here. In short, there's no news for slashdot here.

    Move along.

    1. Re:YANAL by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      i don't need to be a lawyer to comment on the news so why don't you just shut the fuck up?

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      If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
    2. Re:YANAL by kfg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      You Are Not A Laywer. . . Seeing as how almost no one here has studied law and can offer intelligent commentary on this latest development, why don't you leave it up for the judge to decide?

      You do not seem to be aware of the difference between a lawyer and legal scholar, so why don't you leave that up the S.J.Ds and L.D/Ph.Ds to decide?

      KFG