Sony's DRM creates a serious security hole on Windows computers. You should consider holding off on purchasing any music from Sony or it's subsidiaries until they back off the idea that their customers are (a) criminals and (b) clueless:

"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
Sony/BMG Global Digital Business President Thomas Hesse, National Public Radio, November 4th 2005.

I buy Chris Botti music and have attended Chris Botti concerts. I am a Chris Botti fan, and I would love to buy this CD.

However, I am boycotting Sony.

Sony is attempting to boost their market power in the portable music player and software market under the guise of copy protection.

Their rootkit software meets every definition of Malware I have found.

It (1) eats CPU power, (2) restricts your ability to use this CD with iTunes, (3) may harm your computer, and (4) may leave your PC more vulnerable to viruses.

Above all, it targets the wrong group of people. It targets paying customers and fans. Yes, it is easy to get around for computer savvy people. How many honest customers will be hurt in this poorly veiled attempt to sell more walkman players?

Sony installs spyware that hijacks your computer. Boycott them.

According to the Washington Post: "Security experts warned that the anti-piracy software's ability to hide on a Windows-based computer could also be used by viruses to remain hidden on a PC, even from anti-virus programs. Last week, someone mass-spammed several versions of a virus that uses Sony's technology to remain cloaked on victims' machines. Since then, anti-virus companies -- and even Microsoft -- have said they will consider Sony's software as spyware and remove it as such."