EU hits Nitendo with €168m fine for price fixing.

[RichL]

And AOL/Time Warner plus other companies are next in line, suspected of forming a cartel to raise the price of DVDs.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5984

Does this mean the EU is actually good for something?

[Wulfman]

maybe nintendo will raise the prices (even further). at least they have a good excuse now.

mfg
wulfman

[Technoid]

DVD Price?

That is nothing aginst the CD prices

THat would be something for EU to hunt

[Novdid]

I agree Technoid!!! Yes indeed!!!

[Technoid]

I don't think DVD's are overpriced in sweden....
they cost from 8$ to 25$.......

CD's on the other habd don't go lower than 15$ unless they are baaad quality..
and usualy they are 17$ to 21$

Compared to the fact that DVD's cost more to produce manufacture etc etc etc and that they are dropping in price CD's are d*** expensive especialy since prices are slowly rising

[RichL]

CD prices are so high because everyone pirates music and swaps MP3 files over the internet, hence they buy less CDs and the RIAA has to find the money to pay their lawyers to try and shut all the filesharers down from somewhere.
So if the RIAA wasnt having to fund its lawsuits against everyone who'd ever seen a computer, they could afford to lower the prices of CDs. And if CD prices were lower, people wouldnt be so inclined to swap MP3s rather than buy the original CD.

Its nothing at all to do with large numbers of modern artists being manufactured commercial entities with little real talent releasing a carefully hyped album of 2 good songs and 12 crap ones written by someone in an office somewhere whos insulated from the real world by a mile or two of cotton wool.

Really.....

[Technoid]

the CD prices was hitting the roof 6 years ago

[RichL]

I was being sarcastic

[Technoid]

Ofcoarse I knew that

I was being pesimistic