Real Sues Baseball Over Windows Media

westlake writes 'According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, RealNetworks has sued Major League Baseball over its use of Windows Media. The dispute began with MLB's decision to stream exhibition games in WMA format only, under its revised contract, Real claims all live MLB streams must include RealMedia as an option. The piece states: 'Windows Media Player controlled about 34 percent of the U.S. market, compared with nearly 19 percent for RealOne player and 10 percent for QuickTime player, according to January data from Nielsen/NetRatings.'"

Comments

Re:just use this

[icebike]

Windows only. (puke)

Typical...

[Bl33d4merican]

Rich big business Republicans sticking with rich Republican-funding M$? Why am I not surprised?

Re:I'm so torn

[dTaylorSingletary]

I can't understand city-team loyalty. A city's team is not representative of the city in almost any way. The players are not, for example, native Bostonians, and in most examples the players only live in the city of Boston because they signed a contract with Boston. What is the psychology of loyalty in this case? Is it because the people owning the team (often, the owners are also not natives or dwellers of the city in which they play) have the cunning to choose these players?

Is team loyalty merely an act of convenience? Because I live in x city and x city has a team, I therefore should root for x team. Can someone explain this? Rationalize it beyond it being just the way things are?