Australian Court Doubles CD Importers' Fines 258
anti-fsck writes "Australia's Full Federal Court today upheld a lower court's decision that music labels Warner Music and Universal Music had engaged in anti-competitive practices in the .au CD market by threatening retailers who imported cheaper CDs. The court also doubled the labels' fine - and the fines for senior label executives - to more than $A2 million. w00, cheap CDs at last? Now if we can only get US-zoned DVDs legalised as well ..." Another reader notes that the U.S. government is busy trying to get Australia to change its laws to increase the profits of U.S. record companies.
Re:Oh my! (Score:0, Funny)
No, $A2 million dollars = 162 million dollars :P
now all we need to do.. (Score:0, Funny)
no wait...
cd's are bad (Score:4, Funny)
"I haven't bought a cd since 1999. Not because I download songs, but quite frankly RIAA, your music sucks donkey balls.
court number (Score:4, Funny)
-- must be some computer friendly judge to pass the fine in hex notation.
Now that's a fine!! (Score:3, Funny)
You know they're serious when they have to make up new numbers to describe the amount of the fine!
Either that or they fined them in hex dollars (works out to $162 million).
I'm sure the RIAA is thinking.. (Score:3, Funny)
Dental Plan... (Score:0, Funny)