And you know, this copy protection is completely useless. Just play it on a regular CD player, run the output to the PC's line in, and voila, MP3'd
You can probably do it all on a PC, if you get a sound card eavesdropper. Something like Wiretap on Macs, but the Windows equivilent.
Or did noone at Sony think of that? Although the developers with their lucrative contracts might have overlooked that, understandably.