{"id":14,"date":"2002-10-01T23:03:02","date_gmt":"2002-10-01T23:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdragon.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2011-03-31T12:25:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:25:56","slug":"no-wonder-i-cant-afford-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/2002\/10\/no-wonder-i-cant-afford-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"No Wonder I Can&#8217;t Afford CD&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>A little-noted news item from yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The five largest music companies and three of the USA&#8217;s largest music retailers agreed Monday to pay $67.4 million and distribute $75.7 million in CDs to public and non-profit groups to settle a lawsuit led by New York and Florida over alleged price-fixing in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->RIAA &amp; Co. love to spout figures about dollars &#8220;lost&#8221; and numbers of counterfeit discs seized&#8230;. how about some more figures from them: &#8220;our industry has overcharged consumers by at least $480 million dollars in the past 5 years alone&#8221;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We believe our policies were pro-competitive and geared toward keeping more retailers, large and small, in business,&#8221; Universal said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Previously, the companies said that [price-fixing] was needed to protect independent music retailers from rising competition from discount chains &#8230; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Heaven forbid we have any COMPETITION in our free-market capitalist society.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/music\/news\/2002-09-30-cd-settlement_x.htm\">States settle CD price-fixing case<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little-noted news item from yesterday: The five largest music companies and three of the USA&#8217;s largest music retailers agreed Monday to pay $67.4 million and distribute $75.7 million in CDs to public and non-profit groups to settle a lawsuit led by New York and Florida over alleged price-fixing in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":{"0":"post-14","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-independent-music-labels","8":"anons"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peSL2o-e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}