Nah, I give it a month at the most before too many customers complain that they can't play it, and the record company will be forced to offer non-protected versions. It will just end up being another proof that copy-protection methods are always doomed to failure. Besides, from what I hear there are already CD rippers out there that just grab the raw CD audio and ignore the TOC, which defeats the copy protection mechanism.

Copy protection is always doomed to fail, because bits are always copyable. Nothing you can do can stop information being copied. And I'm still awaiting any proof that all these Napster clones are doing any more damage to the record industry than the legions of Hong Kong and other Asian counterfeiters and copiers.

Have fun,

Paul