Crippled CD Deemed Defective In France

Noryungi writes "The daily newspaper Liberation reports that at least one person got her money back, by suing EMI, no less. She was able to do that with the help of the largest consumer organization in France, which has its own list of articles on this subject. So, French people who cannot read their copy-protected CDs can get their money back, but copy protection is not made illegal by the court decision... It's certainly a step in the right direction, though..." For the French-impaired, an anonymous reader adds "The Register has a good article on EMI being forced to refund the cost of a copy-protected CD, because it was found to have a 'hidden defect' -- it wouldn't work on a car's CD player ... Is the tide changing?"

Comments

Re:Clear Labeling of CDs..

[Mikeytsi]

That's the point, dipshit. It's to let us all know what the "copy protected" CD's are, so we can refuse to buy defective media.

Re:You make me sad

[wo1verin3]

>> The fact is that the French military record
>> overall is no better or worse

Hah, if the french got pissed off, what is the worse they can do? Hold their breath until they turn 'bleu' ?

Re:Rimshot

[bogado]

Against your opinion, I don't believe that the greatness of a country lies in how many countries it can destroy. Or how much time under fire it can survive, before surrending. A country greaness should be measured in achievements, both scientific and social. How well their people live, how happy they are. This is what matters in the end.

OT

[cybercuzco]

For the French-impaired, an anonymous reader adds ..."

That should read "For the Freedom-impaired"

Re:Rimshot-Zeinfeld's Francophile writings

[Zeinfeld]

There are none so blind as those who cannot see. If you cannot even accept the fact that the US won the cold war I don't know that there is a whole lot I or anyone can do for you.

Lets see, how many square km of USSR territory does the US occupy today? Not one.

As I said, the USSR lost the cold war. That does not mean that the US won. There are very few wars in which either side can be said to have 'won'. The best you can usually hope for is to avoid loosing.

In the case of the US actions in the cold war very few can be said to be a great success. Take the 1953 coup in Iran to replace the democratically elected Prime Minister with a dictatorship friendly to UK/US oil industry interests under the Shah. Short term this was a success, but it was not very long before the inevitable happened and the Iranians threw out both the Shah and the US oil companies and became a major threat to US interests. The long term effect of the 1953 coup was to replace a democratic regime which was generally friendly to US interests with a theocracy where the US is still called the great Satan.

Almost without exception meddling in other countries affairs uder the guise of defeating communism has had nothing but bad effects for both the US and the people of the countries being 'helped'. US cold war meddling in Guatelmala led to a civil war and 400,000 dead. Chile the loss of a democratic regime, replacement with a dictatorship and at least 50,000 murdered.

The US lost the cold war because it surrendered its core values, its founding principles to fight an enemy that has since turned out to be nothing but a paper tiger. Instead of spreading democracy the fear of communism caused the cold warriors to fear it.

So now the neo-cons have made exactly the same mistake again in Iraq. They have started a war without an exit strategy. The only power in the region that can stop Iraq sliding into anarchy if the US withdraws is Iran. Opposing the US invasion has not weakened the UN security council, it has strengthened it. This was all predictable from the start of the war. The US is in a far, far worse position today than it was twelve months ago.

Fox news might keep telling you that the US won the cold war, Bill O'Reilly won a Peabody and George W Bush is respected internationally, but that does not make them true. Nor does it mean that people who disagree with the Fox news analysis hate America and what it stands for. As should be obvious to anyone who reads history it is the neo-cons who hate democracy and everything the founders of the US stood for.

People who wrap themselves in the flag and worship monuments to the ten commandments are most likely to turn out to believe in the values of neither, particularly the part about worshiping graven images.