You can read it in the Guardian, which has joined in the frantic barking that someone has CRACKED the iPod so that it can now play tunes that don’t come from Apple.
What a crock! iPods can play mp3s’ and a stack of other formats and they always have. There’s only a problem with Microsoft formats - and I wonder why that is?

Hacker’s sidestep lets iPod play tracks not bought from iTunes

Apple may be forced to look again at security for the iPod after a renowned hacker claimed to have found a way of bypassing the copy protection on its market-leading music player.

Jon Lech Johansen, a Norwegian hacker living in California, has managed to sidestep Apple’s Fairplay management system and trick iPods into thinking they are playing tracks bought from the company’s online iTunes store.

Mr Johansen’s breakthrough could potentially unlock the popular music player - which has sold more than 68m units around the world since it was launched five years ago - and make it compatible with tracks sold by other online retailers.

Here where it gets deep:

The iPod is only able to play music taken from CDs or bought directly from iTunes.

Wrong! What is it with the tech press? we can’t get the mainstream guy to tell what’s really going on in Iraq or washington, but if someone farts in Cupertino they get hysterical.

Sheesh!