Re: [gentoo-user] OT: intentionally broken media

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:

> OK, I forgot that you might have contact to a competitor. In this case, it 
> should be possible to force shops to clearly separate the selling point for 
> non-standard products from the products that behave as expected.

Yep, my advocate is also music producer, so he can do this :)

> > Yep, that would be the shop's resposibility, followed on the consumer
> > protection law. Another side is directly attacking the producer.
> 
> I am no sure whether you may directly attack the producer, but I would asume 
> that you could forbid the producer to advertize these defective products as if 
> they were CDs. I expect this will result in some micro-text: "This product is 
> not a CD, we thus cannot grant that it is playable in a CD player" on all ads.

Well, that would be at least a good step. The main point is that
we've have to get managed that these products may not be traded
as they now are in our country. So either producer or importer
have to react on that.

Imagine the big news @heise if we'd such a case ;)


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