The legal issues are very much unsettled, but Real Networks has announced the 
ability to buy songs from their service and play them back on an iPod:

http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5282063.html

But that means essentially Real has hacked Apple's licensing protection scheme 
which may or may not be a good thing.  Obviously their lawyers think it's 
acceptable but Apple's lawyers may feel otherwise.


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