Nick King wrote:
Isn't that how Bill & Jimmy got round it, by buying 5 (or more!) copies from second-hand record shops and then selling them at a grand a piece via an advert in the Face magazine?
i.e. the court decision didn't take into account second-hand copies, so Bill & Jimmy took advantage of that loophole!
I think they sold 7, btw?
Firstly, there wasn't a court decision, it was an out of court settlement. Secondly I don't think there is a loophole that second hand copies are OK - I would say that all copies were to be destroyed and that consequently the Face advert was illegal too. I would have thought that the price in the UKP 1000 Face advert was not to be taken seriously and was intended to add to the myth, and that they may have sold many more than 5 as a result, many of them for much less than 1000, however they still may not have managed to recoup the cost of the Face advert. I have never seen any sources that mention how many they sold, or a journo questioning them about how the Face ad could possibly be legal, but I'm prepared to be wrong on that one :-) cheers -- Stuart Young, Michelle Ardern & Felix Ardern-Young (3) Live at: 42B, Sefton Ave, Grey Lynn, Auckland, NZ Phone: +64 (0)9 376 8100 say.map@ihug.co.nz Graphic and Web design, Web development and hosting: http://www.pixelandgrain.co.nz/ Stuey's personal website - a cobweb site: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/ Any views expressed in this email are those of the author and not of any of the organisations we are involved with.