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Story: 'Unplayable' CDs spark French investigation

Posted by: Marc (Friday 27 August 2004, 10:25 AM)

Wish they did the same here.

I recently took a EMI CD back to HMV cause it wouldn't play on my car CD player (pretty much the only device I play CD's on) and had to argue with the manager for several minutes until he finally admitted I deserved a refund. His excuse, I should have read the 2nd line on the virtually unreadably small fine print on the back of the CD that it wouldn't work on some CD players. How I was meant to know whether my CD player was one such player he did not say.

To avoid this occuring again, Im now starting to download all my music and burn it on to CD-R's. Its cool, you can get twice the number of songs (about 20 or so) on a single CD as opposed to the 10 or so you normally get.

I think the irony of an anti-piracy feature turning me to piracy is quite funny.