[Swordmaker]

Fine...what if someone takes their newly-remastered Beatles CDs and undertakes the Herculean task of creating MP3s from them and then undertakes a second Herculean task of loading them into one’s iPod?

That is legal under the terms of copyright and fair use for a SINGLE USER... but if your hypothetical "someone" then takes on the Herculean task of making his MP3s available on the internet for every Joe Schmoe to download and load onto his/her iPod, then that is Piracy and Hercules should be brought up on charges and appropriately fined.

[a fool in paradise]

Your definition of single user is not shared by the software industry. They want a royalty for each installation of a program even if you have a laptop and 2 desktop units at home.