LONDON -- A European consumer watchdog body is suing the world's largest music companies for selling copy-protected compact discs that won't play on car stereos and computers, the Belgium-based organization said on Monday. The group, known in Dutch as Test-Aankoop and in French as Test-Achats, said it has received more than 200 complaints from consumers who objected to a technology that prevents consumers from making a back-up version on a blank disc and limits playback on certain devices. http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61791,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 .... Note that we suggested a lawsuit based on fraud rather than denial of traditional use, some time ago. Actually, the case for denial of traditional use is lame, in our opinion. (Surely a vendor can sell whatever they want. Only its fraud to use the CD logo, since the disks don't play on to-spec players. Similar to software: you should be able to lock it in any way you can, but you can't say "runs on WinBlah" if it only runs on a subset.) Should be interesting.