"I do know that everytime I go to the record store, I see more and more albums protected by mediamax"
But why do you have to go to the record store to find this out. Doesn't the company know which cd's are going to be copyprotected in advance? Seems to me all you would have to do is ask what the projected number of releases is from now until the end of the year. Even SCMI/MMXT would need to know what kind of "ramping up" is really taking place.