In yet another example of anti-consumer behaviour by record companies, Universal and Warner have been fined AUD$2 million after trying to bully record stores to not sell (legal) cut-price, imported CDs.
Both companies was fined AUD$1 million, and four senior executives fined AUD$45,000 each, after engaging in behaviour the Federal Court Justices described as “…plainly and deliberately anti-competitive in its intent”.
Do the record companies not think their attitude towards consumers has any correlation with the lack of moral qualms from music filesharers? I gave up buying CDs several years ago and now legally download MP3s from Emusic.
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