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CD Copy Protection Case Goes to Court

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-the-cogs-of-justice dept.

grungie writes "From The Register: Belgian consumer watchdog Test-Achats (Test Aankoop), known for its crusade against Nokia's "unsafe batteries", starts the new year with a fresh assault on the music industry. It is taking the music giants EMI, Sony, BMG Music and Universal Music to court for installing anti-piracy systems on their audio CDs. This is excellent news! I was less than happy when I had to use cdparanoia to add The Foo Fighters' latest to my iTunes collection. I used to live in Belgium: Test Achat is serious about the protection of consumer rights. Let's hope other countries follow suit." You can read the stories in French as well as Dutch.

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  1. Press releases by hankwang · · Score: 5, Informative

    Test-achats's original press release in French, Dutch, and Google's translation to English.

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  2. About the Nokia battery test by Cee · · Score: 5, Informative

    Test-Ankoop claimed that there was a risk that Nokia's batteries could explode at random. Later, it came out that they actually tested non-brand batteries... So they had to do their test again, and they found out that nothing was wrong with Nokia's original batteries.

  3. Link. Not the best, but the first I found. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://www.macopinion.com/columns/curmudgeon/02/05 /28/
    Added to this heady mixture in recent weeks is a new generation of digital copy protection that's been showing up on music CDs distributed by Sony in Europe. Fast becoming known as the case of "Celine Dion Killed My iMac," initial reports indicate that these discs are not only unreadable by computers, but may actually crash them and prevent them from rebooting, necessitating a service call.