Fair point on the reference, but it never actually happened. They said they were going to have to raise CD prices by £2, then never did.
In terms of paying more than everyone else - find me a CD retailer charging £2 less per album than CD-Wow are selling for and I'll be there.;)
I'm challenging your statement that "UK customers already pay a £2 surcharge at CD-Wow to cover the cost of sourcing CD's in the EU"
No we don't. In 2003 (prior to the initial judgement), my receipts from CD-Wow show £8.99 for a pre-ordered new album (although the freely circulating vouchers tended to bring this down) Most pre-orders for a single CD album are now £7.99 at CD-Wow. So where's this £2 surcharge?
I was also challenging your assertion in that sentence that they're sourcing CDs in the EU now (which they should have been under the original judgement) and that's what we're paying extra for - they aren't, which is why they're back in court and getting screwed. Had they done what they said they'd do, they'd presumably not be in this mess. Seemingly Play.com and hmv.co.uk can source CDs legally, although admittedly it's £1 more expensive per title.
Which is all well and good, except CD-Wow aren't sourcing CDs in the EU, which is why this judgement has gone against them. They promised to be good last time, and weren't - the evidence of my own eyes tells me this, given that the most recent Scissor Sisters and Macy Gray records both came with Malaysian certificates of authenticity. This isn't some minor oversight of one or two CDs as they claim - they were shipped major releases sourced from Malaysia...
Whether they should have the right to do so is another matter, of course.
To the one who's "Bloom" remix album has protection, and Amazon emailed me about to tell me that I could take part in the class action fun against Sony?
I have to wonder whether a better pricing model might not be the one employed by Disney in Florida, where you pay a set entrance fee and then have several floors of arcade machines of all which are set to free play. I admit that I went at a quiet time of the year(shortly after Labor Day) but it seemed like a decent deal.
Not sure if this is the case for anyone else, but I've found that while i can previous thumbnails, ACDSee (latest version) no longer works, giving an "internal error" message and a white screen, instead of the image.
Still, better than getting pwned.
Well, actually, in this case, what they're doing is trying to sell you the same holiday CD they sold you last year with a few extra bits so that the hardcore fans shell out twice for the same thing.
Updates over the last two days have decorated Drokanr's Forge and Lion's Arch with Hallowe'en related things, there's a new collector that gives out Hallowe'en related items, and apparently something big will happen on the day, which sounds like it'll involve a big enemy.
Not bad considering there's no subscription fee.
"Fans have been lined up for days to see Revenge of the Sith. To preserve the quality of movies for fans like these and so many others, we must stop these Internet thieves from illegally trading valuable copyrighted materials on-line."
In this version, these "Internet thieves" are dseparate from the "fans". That's the essential thing that they don't understand. Likely a good number of the thieves are the self same people who queued up and will pre-order the DVD and the re-issued DVD, and the re-re-issued DVD with R2D2 statuette and wipe-clean photo of Natalie Portman.
I'm surprised at the cynicism. This is a place that can host *thousands* of losslessly encoded live music shows with the permission of the artist with very little downtime that I've seen. Cost to the user = zero.
Or Nintendo produce some kind of 1st party killer app which sells machines, establishes a userbase, and then the developers come, which strikes me as the most likely way they'll succeed, if indeed, they *do* succeed.
That's because it's seemingly random. Apparently to do with interrupt sharing issues in some machines, but Creative have only vaguely acknowledged the problem and haven't provided a fix.
Yes, I see it on a regular basis because my piece of shit Audigy 2 card has the "screech of death" problem which results in bluescreen goodness even under XP. Oh, deep joy.
"on the pull" is a UK expression for going out looking for a mate, although that definition really fails to encompass the alcohol, looking stupid and indeed, likely failure of the endeavour.
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You got the video with it and everything. :)
Fair point on the reference, but it never actually happened. They said they were going to have to raise CD prices by £2, then never did. In terms of paying more than everyone else - find me a CD retailer charging £2 less per album than CD-Wow are selling for and I'll be there. ;)
I'm challenging your statement that "UK customers already pay a £2 surcharge at CD-Wow to cover the cost of sourcing CD's in the EU" No we don't. In 2003 (prior to the initial judgement), my receipts from CD-Wow show £8.99 for a pre-ordered new album (although the freely circulating vouchers tended to bring this down) Most pre-orders for a single CD album are now £7.99 at CD-Wow. So where's this £2 surcharge? I was also challenging your assertion in that sentence that they're sourcing CDs in the EU now (which they should have been under the original judgement) and that's what we're paying extra for - they aren't, which is why they're back in court and getting screwed. Had they done what they said they'd do, they'd presumably not be in this mess. Seemingly Play.com and hmv.co.uk can source CDs legally, although admittedly it's £1 more expensive per title.
Which is all well and good, except CD-Wow aren't sourcing CDs in the EU, which is why this judgement has gone against them. They promised to be good last time, and weren't - the evidence of my own eyes tells me this, given that the most recent Scissor Sisters and Macy Gray records both came with Malaysian certificates of authenticity. This isn't some minor oversight of one or two CDs as they claim - they were shipped major releases sourced from Malaysia...
Whether they should have the right to do so is another matter, of course.
Well, they've ruined Minesweeper with the fancy new graphics. My times are down by 10-15 seconds on expert. Back to XP for me. :p
Yeah, but you get a buttload of Clubcard points with that.
Where on earth is the -5 fanboy logic mod option when you need it?
... and they shove out another GTA clone. D'oh! Too late... http://www.saintsrow.com/index.php
To the one who's "Bloom" remix album has protection, and Amazon emailed me about to tell me that I could take part in the class action fun against Sony?
How quickly we forget Xbox 360 basic and premium...
You're quite right. My comment on the pricing model still stands. :)
I have to wonder whether a better pricing model might not be the one employed by Disney in Florida, where you pay a set entrance fee and then have several floors of arcade machines of all which are set to free play. I admit that I went at a quiet time of the year(shortly after Labor Day) but it seemed like a decent deal.
Not sure if this is the case for anyone else, but I've found that while i can previous thumbnails, ACDSee (latest version) no longer works, giving an "internal error" message and a white screen, instead of the image. Still, better than getting pwned.
Well, actually, in this case, what they're doing is trying to sell you the same holiday CD they sold you last year with a few extra bits so that the hardcore fans shell out twice for the same thing.
Updates over the last two days have decorated Drokanr's Forge and Lion's Arch with Hallowe'en related things, there's a new collector that gives out Hallowe'en related items, and apparently something big will happen on the day, which sounds like it'll involve a big enemy. Not bad considering there's no subscription fee.
But I bet we Brits still pay more for the damn machines than you do.
"Fans have been lined up for days to see Revenge of the Sith. To preserve the quality of movies for fans like these and so many others, we must stop these Internet thieves from illegally trading valuable copyrighted materials on-line." In this version, these "Internet thieves" are dseparate from the "fans". That's the essential thing that they don't understand. Likely a good number of the thieves are the self same people who queued up and will pre-order the DVD and the re-issued DVD, and the re-re-issued DVD with R2D2 statuette and wipe-clean photo of Natalie Portman.
So the marketing message here is that this is a phone than can be used even by complete morons?
I don't know, but the Bitmap Brothers are calling their lawyers just in case.
What, like KOTOR? I think it'll happen eventually.
I'm surprised at the cynicism. This is a place that can host *thousands* of losslessly encoded live music shows with the permission of the artist with very little downtime that I've seen. Cost to the user = zero.
Or Nintendo produce some kind of 1st party killer app which sells machines, establishes a userbase, and then the developers come, which strikes me as the most likely way they'll succeed, if indeed, they *do* succeed.
That's because it's seemingly random. Apparently to do with interrupt sharing issues in some machines, but Creative have only vaguely acknowledged the problem and haven't provided a fix.
Yes, I see it on a regular basis because my piece of shit Audigy 2 card has the "screech of death" problem which results in bluescreen goodness even under XP. Oh, deep joy.
"on the pull" is a UK expression for going out looking for a mate, although that definition really fails to encompass the alcohol, looking stupid and indeed, likely failure of the endeavour.