Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death

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Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @12:44PM from the it's-not-right-but-it's-okay dept.

First time accepted submitter M.Nunez writes "Just 30 minutes after Whitney Houston died, Sony Music raised the price of Houston's greatest hits album, 'Ultimate Collection,' on iTunes and Amazon. Many technologists, including chairman of the NY Tech Meetup Andrew Rasiej, suggests that Sony should be boycotted for the move. In a tweet, Rasiej wrote, 'Geez Sony raised price on Whitney Houston's music 30 min after death was announced. #FAIL...We should boycott Sony.'"

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What a class act! by stevenfuzz · 2012-02-15 12:48 · Score: 1, Funny

I'm excited about the Whitney Houston drug-inspired trance remix album that Sony will come up with next.
They meant well by Daetrin · 2012-02-15 12:50 · Score: 5, Funny

It was actually a gesture of sympathy to Whitney Houston's dependents. Since copyright lasts forever now, long after the death of the artist, they raised the price of the music so her estate will receive larger royalty checks for awhile.

... i kid of course. We all know Sony and the other RIAA members never _actually_ pay out royalties to artists.

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Okay, but there are bigger questions by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2012-02-15 12:54 · Score: 4, Funny

Is there anyone here on Slashdot that's willing to admit they own a Whitney Houston song?

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1. Re:Okay, but there are bigger questions by sgt+scrub · 2012-02-15 13:02 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Is there anyone here on Slashdot that's willing to admit they were the ones that uploaded a torrent of all of Whitney Houston's songs 30 minutes after hearing about Sony raising prices?
  
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2. Re:Okay, but there are bigger questions by strength_of_10_men · 2012-02-15 16:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Personally, I celebrate the woman's entire catalog.
TPB by J'raxis · 2012-02-15 13:09 · Score: 4, Funny

Price still seems to be $0.00 on The Pirate Bay...

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1. Re:TPB by Fned · 2012-02-15 14:09 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  That's TEN TIMES what it was last week...!
Re:We should boycott only now? by Grishnakh · 2012-02-15 14:12 · Score: 5, Funny

I find your post insulting. Vultures play an important part in the ecosystem. Sony plays no useful role in human society, and vultures have more class and ethics than Sony.
Re:We should boycott only now? by viperidaenz · 2012-02-15 15:24 · Score: 4, Funny

Sure you can, my country employs concurrent sentencing for prisoners, same concept as concurrent boycotting...
Re:Sony is a Profit-Oriented Corporation by jaymz666 · 2012-02-15 16:10 · Score: 3, Funny

Are you suggesting they receive some of this price hike?
Re:Price fixing... by fafaforza · 2012-02-15 17:16 · Score: 1, Funny

Which court case, exactly, esablished the "dickishness" precedent?
Boycott? Hell, rob em' blind! by TiggertheMad · 2012-02-15 18:14 · Score: 4, Funny

I don't know if it's possible to do two boycotts against the same company simultaneously. If so, you would one do it?
I worked this out: First go fire up torrents of all the Sony artists you can find and download every Sony .mp3 on the net. Then, once you are done, go delete all the .mp3s and do the whole thing again. There you have just "Stolen" their entire catalog twice. That will show the corporate bastards that the Intarweb is not to be trifled with!

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Re:We should boycott only now? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-15 18:51 · Score: 5, Funny

I purchase all my music from Internet Piracy. They are good guys, the price is always stable.
Re:We should boycott only now? by crutchy · 2012-02-15 19:23 · Score: 3, Funny

yeah, why insult vultures by comparing the poor things to the likes of sony?