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
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