I noticed a ~1.5cm ring around the outside of the disc was visibly a different colour/texture to the standard audio part; I tried blanking it out with Sharpie which some people online suggested might work, but eventually gave up and contacted Sony to tell them how pissed off I was that they were preventing PC-based music listeners from listening to what they'd bought. They sent back an apology and a new copy of the disk without the DRM/MP3 crap.
I bet LibreDrive might have worked by letting me just read the disc raw and grab the bits I need.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
That’s diabolical
She is not a technical person, but she is now very acutely aware of B.S. restrictions like this (and later DRM on mp3s) and how to get around them.
In any case, rip/mix/burn never really made it to iDVD or iMovie (or QuickTime Player), and Apple never shipped Blu-ray movie player software for Macs.
This was in the UK with the DVDs purchased in the UK and with a DVD reader also purchased in the UK, as that’s where I live.
Windows Media Player told me that the region of the Disc was wrong and that if I wanted to watch it, it could instruct the firmware on the DVD player to update its allowed region, but that I could only do this (I think) five times and no more.
Rather than dealing with this pompous bullshit I watched it with VLC player which just worked without doing any of that legal nonsense.
I’ve remained a big advocate of VLC ever since.