Jan 29 2002

Victory for hire society leaves Warner in a spin

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I found this at Dailyrotten.com

Time-Warner extortion scheme fails

The movie industry, not content with nine-dollar movie admissions, made an attempt in Australia to charge video rental places extortionist fees for providing DVD’s for rental. They did this by claiming that DVD’s were somehow “software” and not subject to the laws regarding film. Some rental places did the right thing and bought consumer-grade movies at Kmart, for which Time-Warner threatened criminal and civil prosecution. An Australian judge has called them on this bullshit.
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