[Ronin]

More red meat for the computer geeks. I predict this kind of "copy-proofing" will last a week or two at the most before some bright kid finds a way to penetrate it and posts the fix on the Internet.

Warhead vs. Armor again.

[weegee]

There is software that will record any audio that passes through the sound card.

Since mp3s quite often had substandard audio, I don't see this being a deterant.

Meanwhile, each bit of computer junk that appears on a CD (whether it is track information, a video file, or copyprotection) messes up many a CD player. Sometimes it is easier to just copy off the song tracks from such CDs so that they will play easier on a CD player (say in you car which doesn't know what to do with the computer data tracks).

Some of the CD copyprotection schemes were dangerous. Didn't one of them kill Macs?

[FierceDraka]

I predict this kind of "copy-proofing" will last a week or two at the most before some bright kid finds a way to penetrate it and posts the fix on the Internet.

Easy. Digital to analog to digital. Like this: Play CD on regular CD player with a line running into your sound card, recording as a stereo WAV file at 44kHz. Chop up the file into individual tracks, convert to mp3. Burn CD, tell RIAA to kiss your a$$.