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

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:

> * Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>
> > Some  years ago, the Music Mafia did start to sell defective 
> > disks that look similar to CDs, but this is a different story.
>
> Yep, I recently had an dvd which didn't play on my notebook,
> couldn't read a single block :(
> Luckily I didn't buy it. 
>
> In these days you have to be *really* careful what to buy.
>
> BTW: a friend of mine is lawyer and music producer. I'm trying
> to convince him to admonish those companies which intentionally
> sell broken products ... would be nice if he'd really do this :)
> Joerg, do you feel confident enough in the area to provide a 
> expertise which could stand in court ?

I tries to do this via the "Verbraucherzentrale" - they have not been
interested. 

You first need to check whether you may sue someone at all if you are not 
the "Verbraucherzentrale". What you may do is to forbid mixing these non-CDs
with standard compliant media in the same rack in a shop and you may force the 
shops to add hints that "the rack to the left" does not include CDs.

Jörg

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