Courts ban CD Wow's 'grey' imports
28 August 2012
The UK courts have delivered another landmark ruling against parallel importing by banning an online compact disc retailer from buying cheap goods from outside Europe.
CD Wow buys official CDs directly from the record companies through its Asian arm, then sells them online for significantly less than other UK retailers.
However, the British Phonographic Institute (BPI) claimed that CD Wow was parallel or "grey" importing, referring to a supplier buying items in one country and shipping them to a second, where the brand owner...