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I have a few of those CD's. They also have copy protection to keep people from copying the CD's. It doesn't work.
You can't really have effective copy protection on any disc that can be played in a basic CD player; they're just too simple.
So Sony's approach was to put an autorun installer for a 'music player' on the disk too. If installed, it attempted to lock your CD drive from being used by any other software and couldn't be easily uninstalled. And they pirated open-source software (yes, that's possible) to build it.
SMH My Head.
Even if it did we's still find a way to copy it. I copy Ultra HD-Blu-rays I purchase to my hdd as a backup. DRM only serves to punish those who actually spend money on media.
Oh, indeed. I'm just pointing out that terrible & illegal DRM is hardly a new practice.