Well even if they do make all cd's copy protected (wich really would piss me off and every one else too) you could always copy a "copy protected cd " by playing it on a standard cd player that will play the disk and record it directly as wav files on the pc from the audio in, they cant stop you from doing that. Shure it would be a pain in the ass and it would take forever, but it would work. Also what about that new sony hard drive car stereo that rips cd's in the car will that thing play "copy protected cd's" , and all the other hundreds of mp3 players that are sold, it would make all of them usless. They have alot to consider, and I hope they wake up and just ditch the idea and make cd's cheaper so people would rather buy one than download it or copy it. Almost everything in my empeg came from cd's I own and the songs that I got off the net are out of print so I could not buy the anyway.