iPod hits Microsoft on another front

More evidence that the near-ubiquitous iPod is shaping events in more ways than making everyone on the train sport white earphones, is the latest problem for copy-protected CD's. Since the copy-protected "second session" tracks on CD's have been in WMA, and iPod's don't do WMA, people have been unable to transfer these files to their iPods (of course holding the shift key still works). Of course SunnComm and Macrovision (the copy-protection people) say that the next version of their scheme will allow effortless DRM-protected copies to be made on a computer or MP3 player, through the use of new

crapware software. In any case, this could potentially do some damage to the Microsoft monopoly on "second session" tracks.