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A Brazilian man sued EMI and won damages after a CD he purchased would not play in his car CD player. The article is in German (as the title suggests). The DRM Watch summary (in English) observes that "Although the major record companies tend to believe that most consumers will passively accept copy-protected CDs, this is an example of the kind of backlash that they can expect when they begin to distribute them in quantity in the U.S. market." Yup.

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