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Consumers Take on the Music Industry
Posted by Raul Ruiz on Monday, June 17 @ 23:55:16 EDT Consumers

News.com is reporting that five major record companies, Universal Music Group, BMG Entertainment, EMI, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music, have been handed a class-action lawsuit alleging that new CDs with anti-piracy measures are defective and should be barred from sale or should contain a warning label on them. The lawsuit was filed in California under their consumer protection statutes alleging that the products are "defective".

The CDs that they are referring to are the ones that will not play on your PC, depending on your CD-ROM drive. LawMeme has reported earlier about the advanced technology used to break this anti-piracy measure.

 
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Re: Consumers Take on the Music Industry (Score: 1)
by RGSharpe on Wednesday, June 19 @ 14:55:23 EDT
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This is an interesting lawsuit. Has anyone been able to track down a link with more in-depth information about it, so that we could examine the prospects?

I have to admit, it would be great to see the music industry forced to make it known which discs they released carried some form of copy protection, but I imagine it'll drive down sales terribly.

--Ryan Sharpe


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by Anonymous (Name Withheld on Advice of Counsel) on Thursday, June 20 @ 11:01:00 EDT
I am very glad to see this lawsuit. It is most definitely wrong to sell non-CD's alongside CD's. What I find interesting is the use of the CDDA logo in these non-CD's. I've noticed that quite a few of my CD's (real CD's) lack the logo on the actual disc. But all of my CD's which are supposedly crippled in some way (according to fatchuck's) lack the logo. In addition, all the CD jewel cases contain the CDDA logo on the interior piece that holds the disc. Obviously, the non-CD manufaturers haven't gone to the trouble to produce new cases; however, this is extremely misleading and probably violates Philip's trademark or whatever sort of control they have over the CDDA logo.


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