I've thought about the digital in on a sound card, and believe me : I WILL use that option if everything else fails. I've got a DVD player over here with optical out and I've got a SB audigy card in my PC, so that shouldn't be a problem.

It's just that I believe that if nobody tries to do anything about this soon every new CD will have some form of this protection on it , making the lives of people like me (and lots of others on this board) much more difficult if we want to feed our Mp3 players.
So I can guarantee you that most people won't even go through the effort of re-recording the CD, digitally or not. Hey, that takes 2.5 hrs! (if it's a double CD, like in this case). So what will they do?
Simple, fire up audiogalaxy, kazaa, morpheus, bearshare or whichever file sharing utility they prefer and download the CD. My guess is next time most people wouldn't even go through the effort of purchasing the CD too. So in the end, music distributers shoot themselves in the foot. They just don't know it yet.