The legal reasons *do* cut it. It's how Diamond got off the RIAA charge with the Rio player - you couldn't get music off it digitally, hence it didn't need to comply with the AHRA.

The position we take is the same as people like Hango with their PJB, Diamond with all their players (of course, with 3rd party software you can copy stuff off - just as you can with the empeg), etc. The device is NOT the same as a Zip disk or other computer storage as the empeg is first and foremost a music playback device, not a storage device.

We have to be *very* careful. We can't afford to get sued, so we do our best to avoid it. We may add facilities for storage of non-tune files on the unit at some point, though it isn't in the 1.1 list.

Hugo