A European consumer watchdog group is suing major music companies over their copy-protection schemes. “Belgium’s Test-Aankoop said it was suing EMI, Universal Music, Sony and BMG in a Brussels court with the aim of forcing them to abandon the controversial practice of copy protecting CDs in order to prevent them being played on certain devices. It claimed that consumers are being illegally prevented from making back-up copies of their favourite CDs and that they are being deprived of their legal right to play CDs on computers and in car stereos.”