"The NCC had little faith that industry self-regulation would adequately protect consumers' rights," stated the NCC to a parliamentary inquiry, "into technologies that limit what people can do with CDs, DVDs and downloaded media," says the BBC, going on:

"In its submission to the inquiry, the NCC said many consumers were regularly running up against the restrictions record companies and film makers put on their products. The consumer group said people were finding that they could not make compilations for their own use or easily move digital copies between different devices."

In its statement, the NCC said digital locks put on content were, "constraining the legitimate consumer use of digital content" and also undermined were rights established by consumer protection and data protection laws".