Real Squeezes Silently Back into the iPod

Thanks Real, for fighting a useless battle which wrecks things for the rest of us. Does anyone actually want to use the Real Rhapsody music store, much less take songs from it and put them on their iPod? I wonder how much Real would like it if someone figured out a way to crack their own DRM scheme to open their files, convert them to MP3 and then load them on an iPod. Something tells me they wouldn't be too happy. The only thing Real has accomplished is to provoke Apple into tweaking the iTMS protocols again in order to break Real's new hack. This will in turn break some genuinely useful programs, like Jon Johansen's SharpMusique and FairKeys and the JHymn project. And for C.K.: Regarding putting your iTMS files on your PSP, look into JHymn at http://hymn-project.org. It can strip the DRM from iTMS files, as well as convert them to MP3 if you need to play them on something that doesn't handle AAC files.

But, Darkside, what really chaps my hide is that I'm not listening to the song on my iPod and the PSP at the SAME TIME.

"I want to buy songs off the iTMS and copy them straight over to both my iPod and my PSP. Is that so wrong?"

According to them, yes: you're copying the song twice. Even if your PSP was for "backup", the industry still hates you.

And we hate the industry back; circle of life, man.