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

2008-07-07 Thread Joerg Schilling
Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I forgot that you might have contact to a competitor. In this case, it should be possible to force shops to clearly separate the selling point for non-standard products from the products that behave

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

2008-07-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You first need to check whether you may sue someone at all if you are not the Verbraucherzentrale. Well, depends on from which side you want to attack: a) competition law violation: you have to be a competitor or represent an reasonably large

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

2008-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I forgot that you might have contact to a competitor. In this case, it should be possible to force shops to clearly separate the selling point for non-standard products from the products that behave as expected. Yep, my advocate is also music

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

2008-07-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

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

2008-07-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] OT: intentionally broken media

2008-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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