New iPod Firmware Locks Out RealNetworks Music

KingFishKingFish
edited January 2005 in Science & Tech
Apple Computer has quietly updated its iPod software so that songs purchased from RealNetworks' online music store will no longer play on some of the Mac maker's popular MP3 players.
The move could render tunes purchased by many iPod owners unplayable on their music players. For the last four months, RealNetworks has marketed its music store as the only Apple rival compatible with the iPod, following the company's discovery of a way to let its customers play their downloaded tunes on Apple's MP3 player.

Apple criticized RealNetworks' workaround, dubbed Harmony, as the "tactics...of a hacker," and warned in July that RealNetworks-purchased songs would likely "cease to work with current and future iPods." Apple offered no further statement Tuesday, but confirmed that the software released with its iPod Photo will not play music purchased from RealNetworks' music store.
Source: c|net

Comments

  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Apple: Does this gun ever run out of ammo? There isn't much of my foot left. Maybe I'll start on the other one!

    -drasnor :fold:
  • rushter
    edited January 2005
    typical apple crapola at it's finest - crapintosh smackintosh
  • Patter420
    edited January 2005
    So steal music and have no worries!
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Patter420 (Guest) wrote:
    So steal music and have no worries!

    other than getting caught stealing music?
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