I didn't realise the album was copy protected at first, as it played in my Mac using iTunes just fine (my amp is in for upgrade so I am stuck with just my PC's for music at the moment).
Anyway, when I tried on my PC later I was shocked at the awful quality their CD player produces, sounds absolute rubbish and massively compressed, but then the bit rate was about 47kbs and unadjustable.
Anyway iTunes had no trouble with it, so I just xferred the mp3's across my network to my PC and now they play fine (and much better) at a decent bitrate in WMP. I have never swapped music files with anyone or given away songs I copy to my PC, I'm not interested at all in that as I like to support the music I enjoy in order that more will be made. However, it really gets on my nerves when I am stuck with an album I couldn't even effectively listen to (and I know my PC soundsystem is crappy compared to my Denon/M&K combo but it's better than my Mac speakers).