funny how you are bitching about people "stealing" other people's work and bandwidth with regards to a product that is primarily and universally used to play back illegally owned music..

Yeah, yeah, some people will use their own music collection and not use any pirated music. Well I would bet all I own that the vast majority of Empeg and other hi-capacity MP3 player owners have bootleg music in their collections.. So let he without sin(stealing) cast the first stone...

Stealing bandwidth is kind of sleazy, but the owners of that material can do something to prevent it from being leeched in the first place.