Yeah, I've already had one colleague ask me to rip it so that he could listen to it at work (none of his rippers liked it, but mine didn't notice anything unusual - on identical hardware.) While I was doing so, I was strongly tempted to take a copy for myself out of spite for a company deliberately selling goods "not fit for purpose" and not "as advertised" (Compact Disc logo). As someone else said, such measures will reduce sales.