The following two paragraphs are from separate postings by Beastie Boys fans. The final part is fom the Beastie Boys website which is turning out to be untrue. It seems that this stuff IS installed in US and UK cds. Big Brother is out there folks and he's busy as hell...
After more than five years, the Beastie Boys have released a new album. It seems that the retail disc is bundled with a copy protection autoinstaller which silently silently puts itself onto the listener's computer. Many listeners are up in arms and some are venting their frustrations on the band's website." 
It seems that Capitol Records has some sort of new copy protection system, that automatically, silently, installs
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Re: Beware: New Beastie Boys CD comes with hidden protection
The company that provide the
Re: Beware: New Beastie Boys CD comes with hidden protection
The new Velvet Revolver CD does some shady stuff too. However if you don't allow your CD Rom to autorun you can rip it before it installs its garbage.