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"Record companies retain CD protection right

Stephanie Bodoni, London - 06 June 2004

Four of the world's largest music companies have scored a victory in a case that could have damaged their anti-counterfeiting efforts.

In an 11-page judgment on May 26, a Belgian court rejected demands by Belgian consumer watchdog Test-Achats to halt the record labels' production of copy-protected CDs and remove all such CDs from the market.
The court ruled that EMI, Sony, BMG and Universal Music had the right to produce anti-copying CDs, delivering a blow to Test-Achats, which had collected more than 200 complaints from disgruntled individuals. . . ."