Word: rip-off
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...clearly not enough, at least not for Prince. Why else would he have launched his Musicology download store, an iTunes rip-off that makes his music available to the agnostic, non-NPG fan for 99¢ a song? Why would he be touring with the come-on--aimed at all those slow-dancing Purple Rain thirtysomethings--that this may be the last time he will play the hits? Why would he have released Musicology both on his website and in record stores (on April 20) through a distribution deal with megacorp Sony...
...University will square off with Mediaset, a TV company controlled by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. WKU, whose mascot has been the fuzzy-slipper-like BIG RED, right, since 1979, claims that GABIBBO, the mascot for Mediaset's nightly show Striscia la Notizia (Stripping the News), is a clear rip-off, and is suing for $250 million. In support of the claim, Big Red and the kid who plays him are traveling to Italy to do interviews. But are they a match for the Italian blob's charm? Gabibbo had a best-selling album, and like so many Italians...
...fact, the far more consequential--but perfectly legal--rip-off is the bevy of bloated fees that fund firms charge to manage your money. These range from loads (hefty commissions doled out to brokers or financial advisers for selling you a fund) to fees that cover advertising, marketing and distribution costs for the funds (known as 12b-1 fees). In Senate hearings earlier this month, New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer said inflated fees may be costing investors $10 billion a year...
...economy's slump began under that sorry so-called President Bill Clinton ... you can't blame the economy's slip on a President. If anyone is to blame it would have to be the terrorists, the rip-off artists in huge companies (i.e. Enron, Tyco, Martha Stewart) ... and leftist reporters and media such as Time Magazine. Wade Spruill Birmingham...
...from its early slot of 52 on Billboard's Hot 100 to No. 1. Next month she starts a U.S. tour with nine former rivals, including runner-up Justin Guarini. By the time that's wrapped up and Clarkson has finished her first full-length album, contestants for Idol rip-off shows should be just about ready to try to bump her back into obscurity...