I take it you’re using windows, the first thing you want to do is make sure the auto-run setting for the CD drive is turned off, then put in the CD, which of course does nothing. While the CD is in the drive open a command prompt window by typing cmd in the run dialog. Then you can switch to the CD drive and do the dir command to get all the filenames, armed with those you can copy them one at a time in wav format to the harddrive, then just use some other software to convert them over to mp3. Basically, DOS is too stupid to figure out what to do with the protection junk at the beginning so it just ignores it.
Remember while you’re doing this entire thing that borrowing a friends CD and making a copy is illegal, but if you own it good Luck
Shawn
btw, mods if this post breaks the rules, please let me know and I will be more than happy to remove it.