Of course that's fair... and believe me, so far Empeg has been very cool with all of their policies, but I'm just hoping that as things get bigger and the train starts moving faster, that they keep the same philosophy. I guess the motivation behind my post was that I just dropped $1500 for my Mark II, and I'm hoping that I don't have to pay later for software upgrades unless it's a feature I really want/need...

Which brings up another question.. Are these licensed features going to be sold as plug-ins, add-ons, or patches that can be purchased separately from the rest of the player software? Like, what if I don't want WMA support (I'm assuming that will cost some money for licensing.) Shouldn't I be able to get new software upgrades without WMA and not have to pay for it? Plug-ins would seem to be the way to go..