Always. Case in point, my Creative ZEN, which is a great player, but could be so much more, has copy protection. Which, has officially been beaten as of yesterday. As a summer project, I’ve been working on porting Rockbox to my player. Since the hardware is quite similar to the Creative Vision:M, I’ve been piggybacking off their efforts, so all due credit to their efforts. And, just yesterday… *drumroll*, I convinced my player to play a custom firmware. No LCD drivers yet, so it was just a black screen.  Now, its up to me, to figure out how to control and interact with the LCD, the buttons, the sound, power, the flash memory, sd card, and microphone. The hardware is different, and yet, quite similar to the Zen Vision:M’s, so, all the effort is up to me.

I am so looking forward to this.