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December 24, 2005 7:24 AM PST
N.Y. subpoenas Warner Music, rivals
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Attorney general's office has begun serving subpoenas on the major record companies, Warner and other sources say.
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integrity or lack thereof. To say Apple is trying to keep prices
down to promote other sales is just plain idiotic especially more
now than ever. People own more iPods than any other music
player. If Apple raised iTunes prices Apple would even make
more money. Apple has all been about simplicity. Hardware
and software alike are the most simplistic you'll ever get.
Leading now to the question of Apple iTunes. Keep the pricing
simple and people will buy into it. 99 cents per song is simple
and easy to understand. Making complex pricing may turn
people away. Steve Jobs knows what he is doing and he's not
afraid to speak out against the music industry's greed.
York. To that end he has been "investigating" just about every
person and company which can get him some press. There are
always enough gullible people to think that a politician is
looking out for them. Interestingly, when Spitzer's
"investigations" end with a whimper and no indictment the press
doesn't cover that as noisily as it does his original accusation.
Do you every wonder what this sort of statement means?:
"Spitzer has already been investigating the music industry for
more than a year. His office has been pressing an investigation
into the major labels' practices for promoting their songs to
radio stations."
He has been investigating in what way? Does he have a team of
lawyers dedicated full-time to this endeavor? Does he have one
lawyer working part-time on it? It sounds so impressive that no
reporter ever bothers to ask.
They, have knowingly and willingly, breached all state and federal laws (RICO inclusive, supply of illicit drugs etc), with assorted very illegal activities and unethical business business practices by using the recording artists royalty payments, to fund everything from payola to other!
Many factual stories and tales of abuse and outright theft!, by the many leading record label company executives exist, that have happened in the past, and are happening today still!
We have SONY BMG, with 28.4% of the retail market, and loosing money from it's conception, have degenerated into nothing but CYBER TERRORISTS!, hiding behind the facade, of a minimal tax paying corporation!, with the unleashing,high and very insecure trojan malware to the unsuspecting average computer user, for the mere purchase of a legitimate audio cd!
They are long overdue for a takedown, it is time to apply both the "RICO" and "Patriot Act"(needed for those who fund terrorism, are equally as guilty as the actual terrorists, ie shareholders go down as well!, should make for a very nice shake-up in WALL STREET club CEO, accountability though!) laws to bring these criminals to book!
Go for broke, Eliot!, take them down, like the common criminals and cyber terrorist they are!
practices that are at the very least unethical and quite possibly
illegal I think the illegality would be in collusion and price fixing
not supporting terrorism. Illegal drugs? What drug does BMG
offer? I mean I'll admit some of thier bubblegum pop may be a
touch of a naughty pleasure but it's not crack.
I think there might well be RICO violations when it comes to
paying radio stations to play thier music. That might fall under
the bibery statutes of the RICO laws but I don't think they are
doing more than competing in an American system of buisness
that seems to think legality is something to be gotten around
rather than a explicit list of core beliefs around an implicit
morality surrounding doing buisness.
I also hope New York gets enough information to get other
states to follow suit. I mean the RIAA has become overly
powerful as a legal lobbying group and has started to make
congress into it's own sort of legal lapdog with things like the
DMCA and thier recent ploy of suing regular people under
corporately designed copyright law.
But for all of us who are against the record labels we have to
handle our opposition in a reasoned way we can't go around
saying they are mafisos selling drugs to kids and killing off the
competition. Even if something like that were true (which I do
not believe) minds and hearts are won one degree at a time.
Let's look at what we can prove and then prove our position one
point at a time.