...Which will inflate the number sold, and allow a media campain that because the CD was protected people actually bought it instead of copying it... (Adding "evidence" to the RIAA case that copying is costing their members millions)
Then more record companies try using this technology.
However, it's _not_ copy protection, it's CD audio standard breaking.
If I'm thinking of the right system, they've added extra data to the TOC. Most CD Players only read up to 99 tracks from the toc (so work fine), but computer cd roms read the whole toc with the spurious data.

Cracking it will probably involve rewriting the firmware of a cd rom drive, but somebody will do it, and then everyone is back to square one...

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)