Thursday, November 10, 2005

European Group Battles Copy-Protected CDs

An AP newswire article by Elena Spongenberg, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

The music industry should stop criminalizing customers and limiting their freedom in the battle against piracy, a European consumers' group said Thursday.

The emergence of copy-protected CDs — installed with anti-piracy software that limits how many times the CD can be copied — "is the most visible example of this," said Jim Murray of BEUC, an association representing consumer lobbies across Europe.

"Private consumers ... are not criminals and to portray them as such is insulting and counter productive," Murray said.

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