The software that came with my MD recorder, bought this summer, allows one transfer from MD to PC and then only in Sony's proprietry atrac format. If you want an MP3 you have to record from the MD to the PC. It annoys me that Sony have the gall to restrict my copying of my recordings.

The whole tone of the instructions and restrictions on the use of the software smacks of paranoia about copying and assumes that any copying from the MD to the PC must be illegitemate.