I fired off a letter to Yamaha expressing my dismay at their decision. I drove 90 miles round trip and spent 2 hours looking at the 9000 and 2000 last Saturday. Why would I spend 2500 dollars for a 9000 when the $1100 2000 has better sounding styles? Because I could download the better sounding styles from the internet. I have many Yamaha instruments in my house but now all Yamaha purchases are on hold.

Apple computer tried the propriatary track with their computers and where did it get them? 5% of the market at best that's where.

As Scott said the whole issue of whether you can copyright a plagerized rhythm track is probably legally questionable anyway.

Tom