As a few of you may or may not know, a bunch of states went and sued the music industry for price fixing. Right now a settlement is proposed, which will fine the music companies, send a certain amount of money to chairity and music programs. However it also earmarks $44,000,000 for paying back consumers. That means they cut YOU a check for anywhere from $5 to $20, depending on how many people sign up for the settlement. WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU START THIS THREAD? Well, that is because only 30,000 people have signed up as of this month, meaning that there is over $43,000,000 left for the taking! Yes, you read correctly. The vast majority of the settlement money sits unused. That would be a terrible shame... I mean wouldn't your mom/lover/gay parter/priest/adopted newbie enjoy a nice dinner? Or perhaps you could use it to buy a couple of movie tickets! (*New Yorkers: half the cost of one movie ticket). WHAT MUST I DO? Go to the URL linked below and click on the place in the upper left that talks about filing a claim. You must do this by March 3rd, 11:59 PM PST. All you have to do is answer YES to the first three questions, then fill out your mailing details. Sorry, non-US residents are not included. http://www.musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.htm IS THIS A HOAX? No, unless you think that various state attorney generals are trying to pull one over on you: California (look under music cd refunds) Kansas (look under featured links) Texas Florida New York Utah So sign up today and take home your proper share of the cash.
from the California site... just fyi. maybe I missed it in rH's post. --------------------------------------------------- Cash Distribution The cash paid by the Defendants, after the payment of attorneys' fees, litigation and Settlement administration costs, shall be distributed to consumers who purchased Music Products. The number of claims filed will determine the actual amount of the individual refund but will not exceed $20.00 per claimant. If the number of claims filed would result in refunds of less than $5.00 per claimant, there will be no cash distribution to individual consumers. Rather, the cash portion of the Settlement shall be distributed to not-for-profit, charitable, governmental or public entities to be used for music-related purposes or programs for the benefit of consumers who purchased Music Products.
Cool, thanks rock. I'm in. Gonna call my wife now and get her to sign up. Then my son, my other son, my daughter, my dog, my cockatiel......
I don't like giving out that much personal information about myself. I don't think its worth $5-$20. And this coming from a man who can't afford to turn down free cash.
So can you or can't you enter multiple claims. Because it said when you enter the 4 numbers at the end that you swear you haven't entered multiple claims, but to get mor emoney you have to eter multiple claims, right? I'm sonfused. Someone HELP!!!
You cannot enter multiple claims. On the screen with all the legalese that I'm sure you skipped it says you can only file one claim per person regardless of how many times the record labels have screwed you over.
Class action lawsuits are a joke. The only people who get rich are the attorneys. The music industry won't "learn a lesson" they'll just pass this cost off to the consumer. So rather than lowering prices, this will just make prices go up for everyone involved with some lawyers laughing all the way to the bank with their 10% of the millions.
