In response to your edit -- My approach with this feature is not to provide everyone with an Empeg full of illegal music. Instead, I'm trying to provide a method to find music that you might like in a convenient way. Currently, companies send radio stations samples to play to entice people to buy the CD's. I'm almost never satisfied with the quality of ripping from Gnutella folks, so if I find something I really like, I'll buy the CD and rip what I like onto my Empeg. Can you abuse the feature? Sure... But you can abuse almost anything. Heck, you can record the songs off the radio if you wanted. Of course, occasionally there actually is a good rip of a song .. If I like any other music by that artist, I generally buy the CD ... I do admit to having a few one-hit-wonder mp3's that i couldn't bring myself to buy an entire CD of the person -- oh well