High Tech Method to Beat Sony Rootkit: Scotch Tape

That's right yet another complicated copy protection system can be defeated with something found in every dorm room. The other solution, of course, is to turn off auto-run on your Windows PC or to simply NOT enter your admin password on your Mac.

Applying a piece of opaque tape to the outer edge of the disk renders the data track of the CD unreadable. A computer trying to play the CD will then skip to the music without accessing the bundled DRM technology.
"After more than five years of trying, the recording industry has not yet demonstrated a workable DRM scheme for music CDs," Gartner concluded in a newly published research note.
The use of a piece of tape will defeat any future DRM system on audio CDs designed to be played on a stand-alone CD player, the analyst said...
But the analyst advised that, instead of limiting what users can do with music they have already purchased, record labels should focus on tracking this use.