A while ago (2006? Not sure) I was trying to buy a CD in a Tower Records store in SF, and I found the disk I wanted but it said it was "copy protected". I would

A while ago (2006? Not sure) I was trying to buy a CD in a Tower Records store in SF, and I found the disk I wanted but it said it was "copy protected". I would have had no problem ripping it with abcde or cdparanoia or something, but refusing to support this, I asked the store employee: "Do you, by any chance, have another copy of this without copy protection?" He looked at me, with complete disbelief, saying "But why wouldn't you want your copy to be protected?" I asked him "Do you know what kind of protection this is?" to which he replied, "yes, it's a copy less likely to break". After this incident, I started asking a lot of people if they are aware of what's special about their "copy protected" disks - and the more technical people knew it was an attempt to restrict copying, but the rest thought it was probably a good thing (it says protection, and its on the label, it must be good, or reasoning as such). It was at that point that I started religiously using RMS style acronyms, like Digital Restriction Management, Copy Restriction, etc. and I recommend everyone does.