In short, the restriction on copying files down form the player is completely unnecessary and prevents me from using an extremely nice side-benefit of having spent all that money on the player. There's no legal reason for it

Yeah, we're paranoid beaurocrats who have carried out no research into this issue, I guess we don't even have a solictor (laywer) to advise us, and obviously we don't know what we're doing in our primary line of business.

Rob

PS. You're wrong!
PPS. I had a hard day!