These are the guys that led the charge against Napster. Now you can't see the music files on the CD. I do not do file swapping, but would extract music onto my computer to listen to it...haven't tried this CD yet, but I don't think normal methods will work.
I think what you're talking about is the new "copy resistant CD techonology". Actually it's just a cheap hack from the crappy record companies. There are error detection bits on CDs. Computers pay attention to them to make sure data is ok. Most CD players ignore them. The music fascists decided it would be cool to write a bunch of garbage on these bits, to make it hard to play them on computers.
End result: some high quality CD players and most CD drives on computers consider the disk full of errors and won't play them.
What they're doing is breaking the original specification of CD.
What can you do as a consumer:
1) Break down and buy a new CD drive/player - New CD drives can ignore the bits too.
2) Play it on one device and copy it to your computer. This is 100% legal "fair use".
3) Download the music. It's legal if you bought a copy (fair use), but I recomend not buying the music. We shouldn't be rewarding such consumer hostile activities.