"Then tell me why isnt this any issue with my Archos MP3 player ??

I've never heard of that product. Perhaps it's not an issue because that one is small enough to fly under the RIAA-dar?"

The Archos is one of the most popular MP3 portable players, together with SSI's Neo Jukebox.
It uses a notebook harddrive (like creative's Nomad), but it's not limited to 6gig (I know, the Nomad isn't either, with some tweaking, but the Archos doesn't get painfully slow when it's HD gets upgraded)

More info on it here :http://www.archos.com/uk/default.html
and here : http://www2.funmp3players.com/

If I was in the market for a portable MP3 player, this would probably be the one I would buy.