Arpster...once again we seem to agree...
Recordings are never to be released for all of the reasons all ready mentioned on this thread...
However, once the transcripts are used in the hearing, they become a part of the pulbic domain...
There's a big difference between reading on "paper" the "last words" (i.e-"We're $crewed...Good-by") and actually listening to the words spoken by the deceased flight crew...
I know some recordings are available on the web, and IMHO that's not right...PERIOD!!!
As far as your Captain having a "great device" to defeat the effectiveness of the FDR...I think I had a pretty good way as well, if needed, (which thankfully I never did in 24+ yrs, 11 in the Left Seat)...a very seasoned Cap't showed me that one...