Yeah, why don't the record companies realise that copy protection is useless ? Can't they understand that if the CD is playable on a "normal" CD player with a digital out then it is always going to be possible to make a 100% faithful copy whatever they do ?

Even if copying was more difficult than that it only takes one person to rip it and upload it (or more likely 1 person to write the code to rip it and 1000 people to rip and upload it).

They just inconvenience a percentage of the population who have CD players that can't play the protected disk and don't get the copy protection that they want.

Pointless...