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U.S. Supreme Court won't hear music antitrust case

article published on 11 January, 2011

The Supreme Court in the United States has dealt a blow to major record companies by refusing to review a decision by a lower court in an antitrust case over the sale of music online. In 2008, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against several major record companies which alleged price fixing in the music download market. It stated that the major record companies had agreed on ... [ read the full article ]

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Interestx
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_ 		11. January 2011 @ 05:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ha ha ha ha ha.

Well, well, well.
Kudos SC.

When the downloader carries all the cost overheads what possible excuse can there be for the current stupid (legal) download prices?

They might as well just post a notice telling people not to bother & go download it from some torrent site.
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Tristan_2
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_ 		11. January 2011 @ 06:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
O-o am I seeing this right. The Supreme Court giving the middlefinger to bs copyright law? I must say...well played
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Mr-Movies
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_ 		13. January 2011 @ 14:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It's very rare to win a price fixing suite so it is nice to see the SC not getting envolved and possibly supporting big business unfarely. If only they would get WallMart now with their price fixing. Small companies might come back to life again and I'm sure RubberMaid would be happy too.

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