Re: Import ban on Eat the Music

[lazlo%ariel.unm.edu@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)]

Eric France <ericf@netcom.com> wrote:

> This may be a related phenomenon: the UK industry may be feeling that
> they are unfairly losing market share to US CDs which may be imported in
> favor of the UK brands.  Of course, unless there are import/export
> controls on compact disks mandated by the governments, the record
> companies are on extremely shaky ground.

There are certainly laws against parallel imports to the US, though
they're rarely enforced.  Given the broad price difference between CDs
in the US and UK, I'd be surprised if there *weren't* similar laws in
the UK.

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