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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

RealNetworks Harmony: It works

To test Real's new Harmony Technology, I downloaded RealPlayer 10.5 Beta, logged onto the RealPlayer Music Store, purchased a track, connected my iPod, configured RealPlayer to use the iPod, and then transferred the song--originally a 192 Kbps AAC file protected by Real's DRM--to the iPod. Voila! It works.

Curious about the file that's on the iPod, I looked at it under the Windows version of iTunes. According to iTunes, the song was a 192 Kbps Protected AAC song utilizing FairPlay version 1. Thus, it's pretty clear that RealNetworks has, in fact, reverse engineered Apple's FairPlay scheme as I reported yesterday. Interesting stuff. Here's a screenshot:

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