[sam_paine]

The more the RIAA etal claim to have 100% invincible methods, the more they ensure there will be hackers breaking it. See www.cdfreaks.com for example.

[Johassen]

Breaking copy protection on a music CD is trivally easy: Make a high quality analog copy. Granted this is not an ideally clean copy, but the resulting MP3 could easily be indistiguishable to the human ear and then could be copied digitally from there. At twenty bucks a pop, they ensure that we'll have plenty of time and energy to spend on doing these things too.