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Originally Posted by thewitt
I don't believe this is true. My music collection is from dozens of sources, 15,000+ songs. Never had any issues.
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It's not really true. It's a collection of confusing soundbites.
During the timeframe that the lawsuit covers, Realplayer discovered weaknesses in the security software (DRM) that Apple used to protect the music it sold. It used these weaknesses to sell it's own protected music that would work on iPods (Apple only ever allowed it's own DRM to work on the iPods, in much the same way that Amazon only allows one sort of DRM to work on the Kindle.)
But when Apple corrected the weaknesses, the music that Realplayer sold stopped playing on iPods because that music depended on the existence of those weaknesses. That's what the lawsuit is about - whether Apple (and Amazon and Adobe by extension) have the right to use DRM to limit what media consumers can purchase and use on hardware they've bought.
Music that was sold DRM free always worked on the iPods without any complications.