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Fines to be determined in July. Now looking likely that they will be forced to close

This item was edited on Tuesday, 20th March 2007, 21:48

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The Hong Kong-based retailer is now calling for a full review of copyright law that it claims "serves to line the pockets of the music industry at the expense of the consumer".

May I be the first to say; "Well, Durr"

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The EU has effectively ended free trade/right to trade of several retailers.
Legislation/court cases sought/brought to force ALL retailers to source their material from sources the BPI deem suitable.

Utter phuqen lunacy.

Is it any wonder the record industry is so despised and held to ridicule for their protectionist attitude. Aided and abetted by the ring pieces that masquerade as the "fair and objective" judiciary.

Choagy FFCUK The SPL And The MPAA BPI :D

back to free downloads then........ :D

why take life so seriously..its not like you are going to make it out alive

Does this effect their sale of DVDs? BPI are a bunch of f***ers. Makes me want to download even more music, just out of principal.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha what a bunch of f***wits. Yeah this is certainly going to make rush out and buy full-price CDs!



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This item was edited on Tuesday, 20th March 2007, 22:34

How does the OFT justify this? If the CDs sourced by CD Wow are legitimate and they are able to offer them at a lower price, isn`t this the competitive market in action?

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How does the OFT justify this?

They cannot justify it in any way.
The judgement shows exactly how much clout the BPI and others have and how little regard the courts have for the consumers.
Simply put "f*** the punter and lets f***en screw them for every penny they have and pretend we are trying to act in their interests"

Choagy FFCUK The SPL :(

Just goes to show that Corporate Britain has the judiciary in its pocket as well as the politicians. >:(

Afterthought: I`m fascinated that the media call the BPI an "industry body" when it is AFAIR a private company. Wouldn`t "revenue protection company" be more accurate and put the BPI where it belongs, on a level with debt collectors and dodgy bailiff companies?

J Mark Oates

This item was edited on Wednesday, 21st March 2007, 00:20

Protectionist attitude of the record companies aside, the slagging off off the judiciary for applying the law of the land is bit off. You wouldn`t be slagging them if they were jailing some felon who`d nicked your car.

And if I offer to sell you something as long as you don`t resell it in, say, Dundee, and you do, you are in breach of contract. And I have a claim in damages. Simple really.

Please don`t take this post as a defence of the contract terms themselves, I share the majority view that we are ripped off everytime we buy music or other "content" but CD Wow accepted the conditions of sale so I don`t have any real sympathy for them. That siad, my lack of empathy could be due to an all night completion meeting that still hasn`t completed.

Anyway, one word, bittorrent. Which reminds me, I missed Life on Mars, must go search.

Bob B