Hi! I had the same problem trying to rip one of MY copy-protected CD's for my RioCar. What you can try doing is looking for the specific name of the copy-protection and doing an internet search for it...if it's a major label, i'm sure somebody out there has posted a "workaround." Most schemes that I read about involved having a bogus outer track that is read by your CD-ROM, but ignored by a standard CD player. So a lot of workarounds involve taking a Sharpie and scribbling out the outer track -- this worked beautifully with the protected CD I was ripping along with EAC. Interestingly, the workaround only worked in my cheapo CD-ROM, not my Plextor, which I think has some sort of error correction mechanism. Anyway, good luck. It's possible to do.

Valsalva