Interesting. So what you're saying is that if you added bidirectional capability to the Empeg, you'd be getting rid of the one loophole that saved the Rio in the first place. Good point.

Still, it makes the legal mumbo-jumbo sound even more silly when taken in that context. If you extrapolate that far enough, you could easily consider a zip drive or even a floppy diskette a potential piracy tool that requires an SCMS implementation. I can see it now: "RIAA sues Toshiba"...

Sigh. I guess it's not easy trying to balance on the bleeding edge of new technologies.

Tony Fabris
Empeg #144