Engadget has an amusing post about avoiding RCA Music’s lame attempt at copy protecting a music CD. But it’s OK RCA. After all, once INDUCE is passed all MP3 devices will be illegal and… many, many consumers will boycott traditional music distribution totally. Then the musicians will flee… but you can still sue that teen in Houston! You might even get her allowance for the next couple of years.

You really can’t blame the record industry. After all, behind the lawsuits and petty attempts to buy unconstitutional legislation are just a bunch of really scared old men crying over perceived losses. Oddly, the software industry doesn’t cry over piracy and they don’t sue 13 year olds. They add value to their products to incent customers to pay. They also recognize that a certain level of piracy is inevitable. Some folks will never pay and yet the software industry is profitable, dynamic, and innovative.

SunnComn and everyone else who is trying to “copy protect” music cds have really only one option and this is it, placing an autorun file on their music cds- they still need to have the music tracks so any CD player can play it, but they also will try and take advantage of the fact that if they put data and an application on the CD they can exploit a security flaw. But many people are becoming more vigilant about securing their systems.

Disabling Auto-Run is something we think everyone should do, not only for security from viruses, spyware, but you’ll never need to deal with not being able to listen to your music on the devices you own. Here’s how on Windows XP.

[via Engadget]