Bah. Rubbish. Sony's software may be a bit arcane to use, but let's look closely at the so-called restrictions: You are only allowed to a have particular track 'checked-out' three times. That means any one track cannot really be on more than three minidiscs. My question is this: when would you want it on more than three discs?

Also, if you really wanted to, you could simply erase the songs from the hard drive after you made three copies, then totally reformat your HDD, re-install the software, and then make three more copies.

BOttom line: I haven't found Sony's restrictions that bad at all.

Don't drop your IPod!