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
