EMI CD's with copy protection

I got a couple of CD's for Christmas with crappy EMI copy protection on them which makes them as good as coasters in my house seeing as the only CD player I have is in my PC.

Is there an easy way to rip these things? I'm tempted to just return them otherwise

What kind of copy protection do they use? Can't you see the tracks at all? Sometimes for really stubborn disks that the basic methods do not work with, I get very good results from ripping the individual audio tracks from the first session with cdrwin.

Every 'copy protected' CD I've had that refused to work under windows has ripped without issue using CDParanoia on a linux box.

The only times I've been unable to rip a CD with EAC is when I forgot to turn off CD AutoRun/AutoPlay.

I've never had dbpoweramp fail...

I've had problems ripping the odd CD here and there. However, I've found that newer drives seem much better at ripping copy-protected CDs. An older Sony I had at work (32x8x4x burner) wouldn't rip but a newer (48x??x??x) ripped it just fine.

Are you using an old drive (i.e. >1-2 years) to rip?

I hadn't even tried to rip them as I was away from home. They've ripped fine using EAC

Disable AutoPlay = disable copy protection software. That's the elegance I'm talking about.