That kind of protection would make a lousy prophyllactic
I looked over the list of Sony titles with XCP, and the only title I would have considered getting is The Bad Plus (which I didn’t.) I guess I don’t fit the profile of someone who would put Neil Diamond, Cyndi Lauper and A Static Lullaby up on a sharing network.
Sony Music Japan was not part of the Sony BMG merger, so I don’t think XCP made its way on any Japanese titles. In fact, Sony Music Japan announced more than a year ago it would no longer put copy protection on its releases. If one hand would only listen to what the other hand was saying …