Re: Import ban on Eat the Music

[pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)]

In <ericfCE63ou.BxH@netcom.com> ericf@netcom.com (Eric France) writes:
>Being in the UK, you might not be up to date on recent events in the
>music industry in this country.  The music industry in the US has now
>become so greedy that they are trying to control the aftermarket
>lifecycle of compact disks; to wit, there are ongoing attempts to 
>do away with the sales of used CDs, by simple expedient of denying
>sales of merchandise to stores which carry used disks.  They have enlisted
>a handful of naive artists to support them in this effort (Garth Brooks
>for one).




Unless I'm mistaken, this furore died down a couple weeks ago, with
all of the Majors backing down after a particular music chain that
was targeted filed a class action anti-trust suit.
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Pete Hartman		       Bradley University	pwh@bradley.bradley.edu
          "The guy who puts the trees in the holes isn't here today."