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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. Who the crap is Charley Pride? by Cesaro · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I guess it makes sense to try out their new protection schemes on music no one is going to listen to anyways.

  2. So what? by Alcimedes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is some ghetto ass charity give away cd, right? How good could it be? You didn't pay for it, and it's likely to be a bunch of artists who's songs are either on the radio all the time or unheard of. I'd love to see someone try and release a commercial product with this scheme. If record companies are so bent out of shape about making money, this crap will never fly.

  3. Not a bad idea... by Bahamuto · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well I dont'th ink its a bad idea as long as I can get a list of everyone who buys this crappy music, or other crappy music for that matter. Its these kind of people who watch the VMA's. Oh well I guess everyone can't listen to Tool, Deftones, and Rage Against the Machine...

    For the love of humanity take off your clothes!!

  4. rs by hawk · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    last time I was in one, it was for a watch battery. They tend to be fresh enough there, and most of their folks have a better chance than I of opening the watch without damage (and this wasa $100 watch).


    Then, "do you have yet?"
    "a what?"
    She then handed me a bag with a cue-cat in it . . . just a couple of weeks before they folded.


    I'd almost forgotten I'd wanted one to manage my library . . .


    hawk

  5. Fuck you. by perdida · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If I were here in person I would beat the living shit out of you, and I don't care who knows it, and fuck karma too.

    --
    Goat sex free since 2001