It seems to me that you are not aware of facts. This is definitly not correct. I know of websites, who have been contacted by arranger keyboard manufacturers and asked to remove styles, and I have personally been contacted by Yamaha and Korg in 2005 in regards of styles that were converted from Yamaha and Korg arrangers to Roland G-70. I had disrespectfully put these files up for download on the G70 user club website, and I was kindly asked to remove the files immediatly. At that time I wasn't aware of what excactly was right and wrong, so I learned a lesson However, I perfectly understand and respect their copyright, so of course I removed the files at once.

Each of us might have our own motives as to why we want to be able to download converted styles, but I don't recognize any of these motives. It is very simple: There is a law, and we shall obey the law. Furthermore we should not yell at either Yamaha, Roland or whomever, because they enforce their rights.

BTW - notice that there is a lot of things that you CAN do without infringing copyright. I think we should stick to the things that don't infringe copyright

Then you implicitly measure everybody by the same yardstick, because the other companies do the same thing... and BTW - it is not true that you can't listen to the styles. Come on, there a lots of websites with demos of styles. There are thousands of MP3 files out there - just listen to them. And furthermore - nothing prevents you from downloading e.g. the G-70 styles to your own workstation and converting the styles yourself...

Not at all - the only thing that now really gets blown wide open here is that some people has TOTALLY misunderstood what this issue is all about

BTW - intersting discussion, my friend