As I said before, if those record companies continue to label their deliberately broken discs as being CD-DA standard compliant (e.g. by using the CD-DA logo), then they are deceiving the public, engaging in false advertising etc, and somebody should sue them.

I am promptly testing all my CD purchases (I will rip them anyway, so why not immediately), but did not encounter a broken one as yet.

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green