Can't you just record in real time from a digital output on an audio CD player?

A tangent (sorry if this has been hashed in another thread...)

In a successful attempt to run Battelfield 1942, I updated a bunch of drivers, including the drivers for SB Live! Platinum. A readme/banner in the install process notified me that in future, when a Microsoft DRM-protected (forget the exact name) CD was inserted in the CDROM drive, the SB Live! digital output will be automatically turned *off*.

If this is old news -- if I have done another Rip Van Hogan -- well, chastise me!