After having failed to persuade Apple to license the iTunes Music Store DRM system, Real Networks has decided to simply reverse engineer the proprietary copy protection. Real will this week issue a beta release of Harmony, a Rosetta Stone for DRM, that promises to allow users to convert one copy-protection mechanism to another.
You can read the full press release
here.
Apple has not yet commented on Harmony, and is probably waiting to see exactly what the software can do before responding.