News Apple Licenses FairPlay to Macrovision?

Looks like Macrovision has succeeded where Real failed. This from elReg:

Copy protection provider Macrovision is sufficiently confident that it will be able to incorporate FairPlay support into its CDS-300 copy control that is has begun telling customers that it will add iTunes and iPod support to its software in Q4.

According to mailings sent out with the company's CDS-300 version 7 beta release, "support for iPod and iTunes... will be made available in a Q4 update".

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And how long before that's rendered useless too?

 

Fairplay already has been. Several times, iirc.