Or better yet, buy the CD, open it, stick it in your DVD player/PC CD-ROM watch it not work, bring it back to the store and demand a refund. Retailers might actually accept returns on these CDs even if they're opened since Universal said it will honor refunds. If they won't though, still try to return it to the store and make a scene. It might just make the store think twice before stocking those CDs. Then go and complain to the record company themselves (with the toll-free number in the package) and demand a refund.

If you don't buy the CD in the first place the RIAA will just assume that their lowered sales are due to piracy. After all, they seem to blame piracy for any lowered CD sales as it is. Sales of albums off by 1% in a weakened economy? Can't be consumers trying to save some cash. Must be them thar pirates!

As for the labeling of these CDs, it looks like there's going to be a "this CD is copy-protected" label on the front with details inside. Problem is, "copy-protected" will mean nothing to most folks. Joe Average will buy the CD (probably not even noticing the sticker), stick it in his CD-ROM, and wonder why it won't play. The "details" will probably be fine print tucked away so that most people will assume it's a problem with their DVD player/CD-ROM and not with the disk. (I wonder if we'll see a rash of "My CD-ROM is broken" posts here.)