Is there some board that issues "CD" licencing?

No, there is no "licensing" for CDs that I know of. There are ISO standards about the way CDs are formatted, but these do not require any licensing I'm aware of, they are publicly-known formats.

The copy protection takes advantage of the standards. It deliberately deviates from the standard in such a way that most CD-ROM drives will reject the disc, but most CD-audio players will accept the disc. The key word, in my opinion, being "most".


What is to prevent someone from getting the WMA files, stripping their copy protection (which is pretty easy from what I heard) or converting them to mp3?

Absolutely nothing at all.

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Tony Fabris