British CD Retailer Hit With Wow-Inducing $81 Million Fine
It's a bad day for lovers of CD WOW!, the super-cheap U.K.-music website that one of your Idolators frequented for years (until .rar blogs came along, of course). In its heyday, most import-only discs on the site would go from anywhere between $12-$15, including shipping; the prices were so low because the albums were actually shipped from Hong Kong, a violation of European copyright law. CD WOW promised to stop the practice in 2004, but apparently they kept at it, earning them an $81 million fine yesterday:
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