They sucked long before this article was written, but to completely copyprotect a disc so that it will only play on a regular CD player is a bit lame. I'm sure not all their fans are crooks. I know it's only so record companies don't lose out on album sales but come on.

Though my mum has that album and she plays it in her car all the time and plays fine.

Thankfully I've never bought a CD that didn't allow me to rip to MP3 or play on a DVD player on my surround sound system.