RE: for your information

[Stiens Eric <9946144@student.ul.ie>]

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>  Apparently real player has been collecting music preferences 
> of people who
> use it without notification.  The company promises to make a patch
> available on the Web site.  For years the company has been collecting
> information from users unknowingly, and now they say ooops! 
> sorry.  If you
> have enough know how to download our patch you can stop it.  
> I wonder how
> accessible this patch will be..........
> 

the patch is available directly from realplayers website and all versions of
real player released starting next week will have the patch
sealed...supposedly....i highly doubt that it was unknowing (although
supposedly it was just so they ould display track info etc from the CDDR
database) but IMHO there's a lot more important issues to be worrying about,
organizing around, committing energy to than the fact that somebody knows
that I listened to Leonard Cohen twice last night.....

Slàn,
Eric

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