Is copy-protecting CDs moral?
Maybe. But it’s stupid. The stated aim of this protection is to prevent users ripping tracks. However, since you can’t play the CD itself in anything other than a Windows PC, and even then you need to install a badly-written player/DRM program, users are going to be more likely to rip the tracks – either with techniques like those above, or by going onto Kazaa/Limewire etc. and downloading tracks others have ripped. If more artists realised this, I would expect them to pressure the record labels not to protect their CDs.
