Thomas wrote:

I finally found a CD/DVD drive that accepted the copy-protected Kosheen CD and was able to rip the songs to wav files (no magic marker or anything), which brings me to the conclusion that, after all, the copy protection was another useless effort to fill company executives' money bags.

Another (undefeatable) way round it - stupidly simple, albeit slow - is to take the digital output from a conventional CD player and feed it into a suitably-equipped soundcard. N.