On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 01:02 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 11:18 PM 05/05/2003 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
At 10:48 PM 5/5/2003 -0700, you wrote:
I believe that the Philips, who holds the trademark for compact disks, has said that copy protected disks do not follow the standard and may not use the trademark.
If so, couldn't the labels selling be charged with deceptive advertising?
Only if the round pieces of plastic in decorative jewel box cases are labelled "CD-ROM" and/or use the "CD" logo. I've heard that some of the recent sellers of user-preventing round plastic have responded, correctly, to Philips's announcements about the issue by no longer labelling them as CDs.
At that point, the implied assertion that the round plastic container for intellectual property packaging is a "CD" is no more deceptive than the implied assertion that it contains "music".
Given that a tax is already collected to make backups of music (the 1992 Home Recording Act levies a tax on blank media), if one were to buy a CD at Tower Records and then not be able to make a copy, one would expect: -- a refund of taxes levied on blank media or -- a refund of the money paid for the alleged CD (plus compensation for the time and mileage consumed) Were Tower Records to refuse a full refund plus compensation, then of course it would be moral to burn down their building. Maybe after a few such burnings and 20 or 30 deaths of co-conspirators, the practice will change. --Tim May
--Tim May "The great object is that every man be armed and everyone who is able may have a gun." --Patrick Henry "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton