Quote:
| "Martin sez, 'The BBC made a unique deal with Real Networks which disposes of their spyware tactics. Basically, if a user clicks on a link to download Real Player from a BBC website, the referrer script sends them to a page where they can download an expiry-free, spyware-free and nuicance-free version of the player. It's because the BBC have such a stringent public service remit, that it was offensive to charge people a license fee for BBC content, then make them pay all over again for the facility to view/listen to it. |
Real
It's seemed to pass my first test. I selected what formats it gets to control, and it seems to be sticking to what I told it it gets. I see no advertisements on my Real One Player (it's been so long since I've looked at Real One, did they scrap the advertisements for One?).
It passed the second test; I still have control of my computer. And Spybot Search and Destroy didn't find anything to complain about either.
Could this be the least evil version of Real Player since its inception?
(EDIT: oops, the quoted text can be found
here. I found it
here.)
02-03-2004, 01:47 AM
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