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Originally Posted by andygrif
I would agree that some copy protection methods are somewhat of a white elephant, however I have never found a copy protected CD that I cannot play in my PC, without resorting to programs designed to bypass the protection.
It was a knee-jerk reaction by the industry to try and deter casual copiers - but you will find that the next generation of music formats will include protection that will allow you play your music on all devices, but will attempt to prevent digital mass piracy.
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I think the problem with any copy protection is that inconveniances legitimate users of the music, software or whatever while somebody who copies stuff to sell will often just find a way round it. For example, anyone remember the games where when you first ran the game, you were asked to enter a certain word (so the game would ask you to go to page 151 of the manual, and enter the fourth word on the third line).
I personally consider any CD that won't run on a PC (or Mac) or asks for software to be installed before you play it (even if it doesn't actually need the software) to be an incoveniance, unless that software is some sort of multimedia content (pictures or video).