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. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
