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Consumers Want To Be Warned About Copy-Protected CDs
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Wednesday, October 30 @ 23:34:04 EST Copyright
GartnerG2 has carried out a survey concluding that music consumers
  • want to be able to copy CDs they buy for family and friends,
  • want to be warned about CDs with copy-protection "features," and
  • think that home copying is legal and ought to be.

LawMeme applauds the good sense of the survey participants and GartnerG2's straightforward presentation of the results as a warning to the music industry. Unfortunately, the report itself is only available through GartnerG2's clients-only site. Oh, the irony. All of the news reports appear to have been cribbed from the same press release, which doesn't seem to be generally available either. The Beeb's version is as good as any (Protected CDs 'should be labelled').

 
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Re: Consumers Want To Be Warned About Copy-Protected CDs (Score: 1)
by brian on Thursday, October 31 @ 10:41:07 EST
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Was it ever really a question that people would want to know that a CD was crippled or somehow restricted?


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