EMI and Sony Lose Lawsuit Over Crippled Music Disks

neves writes "A brazilian consumer has sued EMI and Sony, and won! The reason was a copy protection technology in the best seller album "Tribalistas" that didn't play in his car. You can read about it in Folha de São Paulo (babelfish translation here), brazilian biggest newspaper. They must be very afraid, since EMI vice-president defended the company himself in a lawsuit involving less than US$ 350,00. A more detailed report is in my music site Agenda do Samba & Choro (babelfish here), where we release some of the lawsuit files to make it easier for others to sue them. Since last year, we are calling for a boycott (babelfish) of copy protected albums. The companies appealed, and said that they will take the case to the Supreme Court, because it is a 'question of principles'. The consumer is sueing them again, because all new EMI albums in Brazil are being released with copy protection and won't work in his car."

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If it doesn't work, can I sue?

[garyebickford]

"The consumer is sueing them again, because all new EMI albums in Brazil are being released with copy protection and won't work in his car."

I'm regularly plagued with software that has been written by Windows-centric morons that won't work on my machine. Can I sue them? Can I sue Microsoft for all those buggy FrontPage-generated web pages?

More seriously, If I used NTFS using non-MS file servers, could I sue MS for tweaking their version of Kerberos so my file servers don't work with XP? (Caveat - my understanding of that situation is minimal, I may have stated it incorrectly. But the idea...)