Copy Control

[1] A December 2006 issue of Billboard magazine announced that EMI had decided to abandon Copy Control worldwide.

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".

The first obstacle is the "fake" Table of Contents (ToC), which is intended to mask the audio tracks from CD-ROM drives.

However CD-R/RW drives, and similar, can usually access all session data on a disc, and thus can properly read the audio segment.

As a consequence of having faulty error-correction codes, the discs may be less resilient to anything that might cause a read error, such as dust and scratches resulting from normal use.

[citation needed] CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives in a computer will usually refuse to play the data except in the provided player.

In Linux, Copy Control discs are easily accessed through cdparanoia or any other software that uses it, such as the KDE "audiocd:/" service.