Online Music Pricing
Cnet is reporting that the New York Attorney Generals office has issued “a new round of subpoenas” regarding its “investigation of online music pricing.” I mentioned the initial round here. Before everyone gets too worked up, it should be noted that these subpoenas appear to be a more focused than the original set which, as Cnet reports, the record companies had objected to. For those readers not familiar with litigation, this type of back-and-forth (request, followed by objections, followed by a narrower request) is common.
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March 3rd, 2006 at 2:13 pm
[…] According to this Reuters article “The US Department of Justice said on Thursday it has opened an investigation into possible anti-competitive pricing of online music by the world’s major music labels. The probe closely tracks a similar investigation by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer into the pricing of digital music downloads, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.” (See our previous coverage here and here.) […]