Originally posted here by UpperCell
If you can hear it, and you are in control of the environment in which you hear it. you can copy it... line from cd player out - to pc line in, or tape recorder (horrible quality on tape though). It's not that hard, I've had this setup for years. I regognize the annoyance factor though... that's all their doing, is trying to decrees the number of people who go through the trouble of copying it by making it annoying
To further that thinking along...I would be amazed if your minidisk recorder didn't have a audio line in (I know mine dose). Just take the audio line out from the CD player to the line in of the minidisk recorder hit play on the player and record on the recorder. This removes any issue with audio quality degradation caused by the computer.