1998-2001 El Kadsreian CD-R ban

From September 18, 1998 to January 27, 2001, recordable consumer music formats were banned in the country of El Kadsre by EKACTA 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 though there are exemptions made for voice recordings. 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, most notably National MP Colton Kynaston, who enacted the ban suspended from law for a period of 2 years to life while the CEO of EKACTA, Sora Kita resigned from office following the ban’s backfire.

The ban also caused the popularity of music-streaming platform Tuzago, as well that of Musicards and P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing softwares like and, to greatly increase in the country. It even caused the rise of sales of Portosic Digital.