Music Store
In August 2003, RealNetworks acquired Listen.com's Rhapsody music service, and renamed it RealRhapsody (which includes Rhapsody Radish). It offers streaming music downloads for a monthly fee. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody was spun off from RealNetworks.
In January 2004, RealNetworks announced that they are creating RealPlayer Music Store, featuring DRM-restricted music in the AAC file format. After some initial tries to push their own DRM scheme (named Helix DRM) onto all device manufacturers with the Creative Zen Xtra and the Sansa e200r as the only existing compliant devices, they sparked controversy by introducing a technology called Harmony that allowed their music to play on iPods as well as Microsoft Windows Media Audio DRM-equipped devices using a "wrapper" that would convert Helix DRM into the two other target DRM schemes.
The domain real.com attracted at least 67 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com study.
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