Are there any tools to import copy protected CDs?

I say return them and let the store know exactly why you are returning them - copy protection will not allow you to use them.

ALso, write a letter to the record label.

Does anyone know a way to bypass this?
There's no legal way to do this, and no way that can be discussed in these forums.

You can record and digitise an analogue copy. Connect your CD player (through the Tape out sockets of your amplifier) to the audio in socket of your computer. On the computer you'll need audio editing software to capture and edit the resulting long file into individual tracks that can be added to the iTunes Library. There are a number of commercial programs for this (I use Sound Studio for the Mac but there are Windows programs). If want to try out the process first you could try the open source program Audacity which has Linux, Mac and Windows versions at this link: Audacity

In addition to the software you'll need RCA to 3.5 mm audio plug cables to connect the Tape Out sockets of your amplifier to the audio inputs of your computer. There's a short guide to recording here: How to record from vinyl and cassette to a computer also from the BBC Copying Vinyl Recordings to CD

Return them to the store, demand your money back.
Write to the record company stating that you will not purchase a single CD from them ever again until they stop using copy protection.

None of these answers get your CD's onto your ipod with the quality you deserve! You can send them back, write to the record company but as you know it's unlikely to make a jot of difference to your current position. Assuming you are only copying the CD's for your own personal use and not for commercial gain you can download some freeware, written by a German student, which is highly rated as ripping software: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ for the download. EAC will defeat the copy protection algorithm.
MB67

Hello,
I am a bit annoyed after I bought a protected CD, which does not indicate that it is on the back and the front of the CD cover. I put in on my Power G5, and could not play it and of course cant rip it into my iTunes.

I heard from my friend that if you put a half inch of the clear tape (the one you can find in a stationery shop), applied to the edge (near the ring) of the shiny side of the protected CD, then put it into the CD Rom.

I tried it and guess what - yeah it played and ripped with no problem at all.

Worth a try but hope it would not make any damage to the len of the CD rom.

I had once a problem with a copy protected CD that I bought. I was one f those that have a second data that only allows the player that comes with the CD to play them and you could not access the music session form a windows computer.

I was able to rip that CD using my linux box.