Musicians Tell You How to Beat THE MAN or How to get around Copy Protected CDs

First, I just re-read my heading and promise I did not just watch the ending of a Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon. Second, unless you are really a bigtime fan of a new cd coming out on Sony BMG and EMI, avoid buying them because they will most likely be copy protected. In other words you will have problems burning the tracks to MP3's to listen to on your computers or Ipods or burning a track more than once for your latest greatest jams disc.
From CNN
Sony BMG Music Entertainment now regularly releases its new U.S. titles on CDs protected with digital rights management (DRM) that dictates which file formats consumers can use to digitally copy the music. MP3 is not one of those formats. The DRM also limits how many copies of the files consumers can make.
EMI Music is testing a similar initiative for wide-scale use by 2006.
SO, what do you do if you already have a copy protected CD? Again from CNN.
One solution artists offer to iPod users is to rip the CD into a Windows Media file, burn the tracks onto a blank CD (without copy protection) and then rip that CD back into iTunes.
Sony BMG says it is not trying to prevent consumers from getting music onto iPods. Fans who complain to Sony BMG about iPod incompatibility are directed to a Web site (http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp) that provides information on how to work around the technology.
Also mentioned the guitarist of Switchfoot posted a link to CDEX which has technology that circumvents copy protection.
Anyway, happy listening.