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 part of the market to be alled to file a suite. > b) they've sold a defective product, and so you're going to hold them > responsible for compensation > c) you see this as an defraud and press criminal charges.
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. > > What you may do is to forbid mixing these non-CDs with standard compliant > > media in the same rack in a shop and you may force the shops to add hints > > that "the rack to the left" does not include CDs. > > Yep, that would be the shop's resposibility, followed on the consumer > protection law. Another side is directly attacking the producer. I am no sure whether you may directly attack the producer, but I would asume that you could forbid the producer to advertize these defective products as if they were CDs. I expect this will result in some micro-text: "This product is not a CD, we thus cannot grant that it is playable in a CD player" on all ads. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list