Stereophile magazine weighs in on copy-protected CDs:
It could be argued that Universal's copy protection would actually encourage people to feel justified in pirating their content. People who were previously quite happy buying a CD, using it in their car, in their home DVD player, and transferring the content to their portable MP3 player now find themselves significantly inconvenienced. If it now requires extra effort to do this (research on the Internet, the download of utilities, etc), they might feel justified in thinking: 'Screw Universal. If that's how they want to treat paying customers, I'll just download the pirated MP3 files for free.'
(Thanks, Fred!)