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Apple vs. Real, round 2

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We have a feeling this is going to be one of those fights where everyone comes out looking worse in the end. So now RealNetworks is responding to Apple's charges that they may have violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act when they made it possible with their new Harmony software for songs downloaded from their online music story to play on the iPod. Shocking no one, they think they're in the clear, saying that "the DMCA is not designed to prevent the creation of new methods of locking content and explicitly allows the creation of interoperable software." Translation: this one is going to end up in court.