From Gregory Tingey
The proposal to modify music CDs to prevent them being played on a computer’s CD-ROM drive
(This Week, 10 July, p 20) is surely illegal—at least in
Britain. For the same reason that some of the early Pentium chips, which could
not do a particular simple mathematical calculation, had to be changed or
modified, a CD that will play on a music system but not on a computer is, under
the Sale of Goods Act, “not of merchantable quality”. In theory, a prosecution
could be brought for each individual CD sold which failed this simple test.
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