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["Thomas Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

This is cool.  I've been thinking some about this, actually.

This is the settlement of a class action against the big record
companies for price-fixing in the 90s.  You can sign up online and
get between $5 and $20 as your share of the settlement.  I've checked
it out and it is for real.

It occured to me that, since we're each taking a small amount of the
music industry's money in punishment for their bad behavior that
we should each turn around and donate our settlement to a worthy
organization that supports OUR digital rights and the public domain.

This would obviously include EFF, Center for the Public Domain,
Creative Commons, and so forth.  (What am I missing?)

I have requested a hard-copy settlement claim form and I intend to
make a bunch of copies to bring to the next InterNetWorkers
gathering so everyone there can fill one out and make their claim.
And I will provide an additional form that anyone who want can
include to assign their share of the settlement to EFF or
whoever.

What do y'all think?

TaB


> For your enjoyment, specialy for Mr. "DRM"
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> Salut,
> Josep
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> Steve Kelley wrote:
>> If you bought CDs from retail stores between 1995 and 2000, you can
>> put in a claim for a portion of the settlement of a price-fixing case
>> against big music companies.  You can get between $5 and $20
>> (depending on the number of claims submitted), and so far the number
>> of claims is way smaller than expected.  Here's an article on it to
>> prove I'm not just crazy:
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>> http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4889636.htm
>>
>> And here's where you go to file your claim:
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>> http://www.musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.htm
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