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Another Class Action Over Crippled Music Disks

Posted by michael on from the oh-the-humanity dept.

pulaski writes "Here's a link to an interesting Baltimore Sun story. It's about the case of two Californians trying to take some major record companies to task for selling copy protected CDs. It's got the classic Cary Sherman whine but the plaintiffs apparently have some legal muscle." A similar suit was settled with the defendants agreeing to make changes in their practices.

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  1. Related news: by Krapangor · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thugs sue house owners over use of locks.
    "Making breaking in impossible."
    "Restriction of constitutional rights of liberty of action."
    "High costs and substantial effort needed in breaking open doors."

    --
    Owner of a Mensa membership card.
  2. Silly Macintosh... by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 0, Troll

    "...If you use an Apple computer, you can't even get the disc out of the tray. It requires the time and cost of taking the computer into a repair shop and having it removed..." Sounds more like a problem with the Macintosh than with the disk... ....Silly Macintosh, playing CDs is for real computers.