French Suit Challenges Anti-Piracy Technology
From Associated Press
Copy protection technologies used to prevent CDs from being pirated online are facing a legal challenge in France, where a judge began a formal investigation of record label EMI Group for using them.
The lawsuit accuses EMI and record retailer Fnac of “deception over the material qualities of a product.”
Filed on behalf of several individual consumers, it alleges that the copy protection system used on certain EMI discs makes it impossible to play them on many stereo systems and personal computers.
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