Audigy 2 apart from bringing tons of useless and seen-it-done-that features into a growing family of SB spin-offs (Live!, Live! 5.1, Audigy), features a wonderful little contraption called DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT. This built-in hardware mechanism is supposed to stop playback of pirated Audio CDs as well as illegal mp3 files.

Now if we could only forget about the (pay-per-driver Creative issue) and get our hands on some "home made" Audigy 2 drivers that bypass this "wonderful" function - we might even consider buying one of these cards. For now - we can only wait.

Source: HardwareConnect

this is the beginning... All future drives will have that "wonderful" feature...

that does it.. i am sellig my audigy or going to the kx project drivers for it.. I am getting so pissed off at creative.

The DRM has also been added to current Audigy and Live soundcard drivers

If it's a "built-in hardware mechanism," how are homemade drivers going to help?