First lawsuit filed against new CD copy protection scheme
Posted on 07/09/01 19:05 by Jan Willem                             
First lawsuit filed against new CD copy protection scheme

Wbe6800 submitted the news to us that a California woman sued Fahrenheit Entertainment, Inc. and its label Music City Records. This because they copy protected CD's with SunComms MediaCloQ audio CD protections without putting a warning on the CD's.

Besides this protection there is also a technology implented that tracks, stores, and disseminates specific consumer personal identifying information, listening data, and
downloading habits to entities beyond the control of the consumer.


Fahrenheit, in our view, has an obligation to the General Public to truthfully and adequately inform them, before the CD sale is made, about what they are taking from them as a condition of playing the music CD on a family computer, namely personal, private information. Consumers have a right to privacy and to be free from false and misleading advertising, protected by the laws of the State of California. It is our view that Fahrenheit and Music City do not disclose the privacy intrusion and other limitations with specificity on the CD container since it would likely hurt sales.

If the defendants want to implement Digital Rights Management technology they have to do so responsibly so the consumer can make an informed decision about buying the burdened CD" said Ira Rothken, an attorney representing Karen DeLise, on behalf of the General Public of California.


Let's hope this is the start of more lawsuits that will make the record industry clear that consumers are no fools.

Source: Techfirm

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By Zyron, Fri 7 Sep 2001 19:33
LET THE WAR BEGIN!
By michalis, Fri 7 Sep 2001 20:08
the war has already began devil
By Fish3669, Fri 7 Sep 2001 21:57
The war has began and let it end with the consumer the winner - copy protection to the extent the music industry uses is complete bullshit. Thank you Karen DeLise for standing up for us all and nailing these assholes and best of luck in winning the trial :8
By Guest, Sat 8 Sep 2001 04:16
Copy copy copy!!!!!!!!!! CdrWin is my "weapon" against Record Industries !
By Guest, Sun 9 Sep 2001 16:37
ah, how touching. this is the sorta news that keeps me comming back.
By Guest, Thu 13 Sep 2001 04:13
What a bunch of stupid comments to this lawsuit. Learn to read, folks. This is about the company getting information about the consumer with his/her permission or knowledge - not about copy protection on discs. You would have to be really niave to believe that companies do not have the legal right to creat some kind of copy protection system for their materials. This lawsuit isn't about us consumers getting something for free - its about companies getting information about us for free.

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