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John Corliss
Richard said:John Corliss wrote:
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| installed the program. I will be uninstalling both Real
| Alternative and Media Player Classic on:
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| Sunday, March 7, 2004 5:15 am
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| Thanks for the heads up.
| They're worse than Microsoft and their Media Player 9 bullsh**.
Yup.
My friend with decades of high-level DP management once said,
"The only company I hate more than Microsoft is AOL." As far as
my own experience with software that rapes the user's computer,
I'd say that Real is tied with AOL. My friend can't comment about
Real other than to say that his public agency has blocked
streaming altogether because of the way that it comandeers the
resources they use for work.
Let me interject a different slant here, John. At least one other
post in this thread tells of a method by which the poster
emasculated your combination (I think it was Donutbandit). I
think that he did a reasonable test, too. Alternatively, a poster
on the spyware newsgroup detailed a number of system changes,
both in the registry, and involving a file named "Rotuma." I
encourage you to check up on his solution, too.
Personally, I've found that I really enjoy being able to listen
to alternative radio from cities far from me, programs that
aren't carried even here in the SF Bay Area. So, being able to
download this stuff is part of my life. Living without these
streams would feel a bit like being thrown into solitary
confinement. I once did as you described: ripped Real off my
system (that's how I know how to uninstall it). I haven't
attempted tweaking either of the alternative Real play methods
yet, other than to kill all the options and also block any
transmissions that my firewall alerts me to.
Well, at least RA uninstalled fairly cleanly (I still had to remove
some registry entries). Frankly, I don't do enough viewing of
streaming media to need the program so I won't be reinstalling it.
Thanks anyway for your input though.