Consumers Claim Victory in CD Protection Lawsuit

In recent months, Zeropaid.com has been covering several stories concerning CD Protection and how it affects consumers rights when purchasing CD’s. We’ve discussed how Phillips is fighting this technology and will deny the use of the patent, how lawmakers feel about it (Is CD copy-protection illegal?) and how record companies are slipping copy protected CDs into stores, the technology (1, 2, 3, 4) they are using and even how after Napster’s downfall CD sales still failed to rise. Well it appears much of the attention that this issue has been getting seems to be paying off for consumers described in this recent News.com article. A California woman sued MusicCity Records and digital rights management company SunnComm for embedding technology in CDs that blocks people from listening to songs on a computer. Well Karen DeLise won, “companies have agreed to stop tracking personally identifiable information of listeners, to purge their files of such information, and to warn consumers that the CD doesn’t work in DVD players, MP3 players or CD-ROM players.” What is your take? Do you believe CD Protection should be legal or is this another negative stride for the Recording Industry? Voice your opinion!