Editing Copy Control (section)

== Background ==
The Copy Control protections were devised in response to the [[file sharing]] and casual CD copying that has become commonplace in recent years, allegedly causing the music industry significant losses, or "ungained" revenues. Neither issue was particularly relevant when the CD standard was introduced in the early 1980s, and thus, unlike the more recent [[DVD]]s, the CD standard specifies no inherent form of copy protection or other [[digital rights management]]. Copy Control is one of a number of attempts to apply copy protection on top of the CD standard, but since it is merely a modification of the already unrestricted standard that must still yield usable results in most CD players, the efficacy of the system varies significantly. Nevertheless, EMI's labelling of some Copy Controlled discs attempted to override consumers' statutory rights with the disclaimer "except for defective product resulting from the manufacturing process, no exchange, return or refund is permitted".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cdr.xenoclast.org/issues/cd/docs/20030407.shtml|title=Campaign for Digital Rights - Corrupt audio disc information|work=xenoclast.org}}</ref>