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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. 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