Okay, well, the original article I found is here:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/20/0034203

Here's another short post on FurdLog about it:
http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/index.php?p=2099

And some angry users:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...921#post892921
http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showt...copy+protected

Here's a register article about the same topic:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06...cted_cd_smash/

First off, it looks like the thing works through the AutoRun feature present in windows explorer, I can't imagine how else it would 'silently start upon insertion of CD'. So, they mutilated the first track of the audio CD and put executable code in it, that's nothing new. But, it angers me that we're at the point now that the music industry is now installing software onto machines without explicit user permission and without a clear opt-out agreement. And, they haven't achieved ANY protection through this. I mean, seriously, it's not that hard to rip a CD from a portable at pretty decent quality, I even have a short tutorial on my site about the topic ( http://cypherpunk.8bit.co.uk/philes/cdprot.txt ). If anything, this will deter people from buying legitimate CDs due to fear that something will be installed on their system without their knowledge or consent. I know I wouldn't buy music CDs if I knew they had that kind of stuff.

However, I'm more fortunate and run GeoShell (which doesn't have AutoRun), so I can examine the CD at my leisure and take recordings all I want. And I'm not a music pirate, I believe that artists should be paid for their work. However, I also believe that I have a right to buy MUSIC without SOFTWARE being installed on my machine. It looks like Solaris/*nix/*bsd users won't have any problems cutting the tracks anyways, so, a lot of good that DRM work did.