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UK Consumers Fleeced by Abuse Of Copyright Laws
« on: March 21, 2007, 09:38:20 am »
More attacks on those seeking to give the consumer a fair deal, this article shows once and for all how copyright law is being abused to rip consumers off for different amounts in different countries and none of this realates at all to production costs as most come from the same plant.

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6471863.stm
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Online music store CD-Wow has been found in contempt of court for selling illegally imported cheap CDs in the UK.
Record companies complained that the site broke a deal not to buy cheap CDs in places like Hong Kong and re-sell them in the UK without permission.

But CD-Wow, which offers albums by acts like Oasis and Robbie Williams for as little as £6.99, condemned Tuesday's judgement as "CD woe".

The company said the albums in question were bought legitimitely from the record companies themselves overseas.
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

I believe this shows definitively how competition is stifled and prices hyped globally to milk consumers of whatever they can, and its not just the music Cartels at this attack on the consumer, Vista was released in the UK at a price double that in the US, its actually possible to have it imported from the US and save hundreds of dollars, can this rip off be legal ?  The answer is sadly yes, the law over control of copyrighted content or the new flipword that has no legal definition "intellectual property" is being abused to attack the consumer and those partaking in this attack should be ashamed of themselves.

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