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Its possible to now stake your claim, if you bought a cd between 1995 and 2001, as a result of the RIAA's settlement for price-fixing. Cartel bad. Cartel got caught. People get money.
of course, the last part is: Cartel just take it out of performer royalties and blame consumer for being artist-unfriendly. but that's not official RIAA public policy.
part two, though -- if enough people file claims so that the total amount of the reward (the settlement, minus lawyers and handling fees, divided by number of claims) amounts to under $5, NOBODY gets the money and it all goes to charitable donations instead. so the situation results in a prisoners' dilemna situation, screwing everybody (except the lawyers) -- people want their take, but too many people and nobody gets anything.
Joe
Its possible to now stake your claim, if you bought a cd between 1995 and 2001, as a result of the RIAA's settlement for price-fixing. Cartel bad. Cartel got caught. People get money.
of course, the last part is: Cartel just take it out of performer royalties and blame consumer for being artist-unfriendly. but that's not official RIAA public policy.
part two, though -- if enough people file claims so that the total amount of the reward (the settlement, minus lawyers and handling fees, divided by number of claims) amounts to under $5, NOBODY gets the money and it all goes to charitable donations instead. so the situation results in a prisoners' dilemna situation, screwing everybody (except the lawyers) -- people want their take, but too many people and nobody gets anything.
Joe
