Anything besides RealPlayer that plays Real ?

[Jing Su]

There was one version of RP that apparently sent back some kind of
statistic back to their servers.  There was quite a bit of backlash
against this, and Real has subsequently removed it.  Of course, I'm not
sure if anyone has actually done packet traces to see if there is still
'spyware' data being sent.

There is an option in the preferences to disable sending traffic data back
to their servers for analysis.  I usually leave it on just to help then
gather data and hopefully improve their product.


-Jing

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Gregory D Hough wrote:

> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:28:33 -0500
> From: Gregory D Hough <mr6re9-mI4xJ4qlgtBiLUuM0BA3LQ at public.gmane.org>
> Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Anything besides RealPlayer that plays Real ?
>
> On 02/04/2004 10:09:41 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >   The subject says it all.  Is there any non-spyware that runs on
> > linux
> > and plays Real's audio+video?
>
> Please excuse my ignorance in this regard, but what exactly does
> RealPlayer do that it could be classified as "SpyWare"? And is this
> something found in more recent versions of RealPlayer for Linux?
>
> The reason I ask is because I never installed any new releases of
> RealPlayer for Linux. I use an rpm from an old boxed set of RH7.0 and
> then perform post-install repairs to mailcap etc.
>
> Just curious,
> farmer6re9
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