1998-2001 El Kadsreian CD-R ban

From September 18, 1998 to January 27, 2001, recordable music formats were banned in the country of El Kadsre to combat piracy due to numerous reports of pirated copies of games and music being sold in flea markets. This was referred to as the CD-R ban, as it targeted the use of CD burners to make pirated copies of albums. The ban also affected cassette recorders and the tapes made for them. The ban did not affect Musicards, due to wording in the ban's enactment that did not specify if Musicards were a recordable music format.

The ban was struck down as unconstitutional and the violation of creativity freedom by the Supreme Court of El Kadsre in 2001, with the lawmakers who enacted the ban suspended from law for a period of 2 years to life.

The ban also caused the popularity of P2P file sharing softwares like and, as well as that of Musicards, to greatly increase in the country.