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Record Companies Sued Over Charley Pride CD

Posted by michael on from the singing-the-blues dept.

DevNova writes: "This posting describes a woman in California suing Fahrenheit Entertainment, Inc. and its label Music City Records over CDs she has purchased which use a proprietary music encoding scheme that prevents them from being listened to without the user identifying themselves. These CDs won't play on standard CD players, are not encoded in the popular MP3 format, and will not play on a computer until the user enters personal information. A large part of the suit is that Fahrenheit discloses none of this information on the packaging."

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  1. Stupid lawsuit by tmark · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Come on...she is not being FORCED to register nor is information being collected without her information. This is not like, e.g. companies violating their stated privacy policies. Moreover there is likely no representation that the CD will play on a computer 'anonymously'. At BEST she should be entitled to a refund. I'll this woman doesn't even listen to Charlie Pride. If ever I could imagine a frivolous lawsuit, this is it. Wonder why I don't here the slashbots squawking their usual song about frivolous lawsuits ?

  2. another mad yank... by Mike+McTernan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just another mad yank trying to sue someone... where's the news?

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    -- Mike