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.'"

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Re:CLIT SAYS HI

[Anonymous Coward]

Judge Rules 'Girls Gone Wild' Is Not Porn

just use this

[ArchieBunker]

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1054 136293

Fuck realplayer.

Re:just use this

[icebike]

Windows only. (puke)

mod parent down

[Anonymous Coward]

And force him to RTFA.

Do you have a contract with Microsoft buddy? Then they might have to sue you!

THIS IS SOME WEIRD WINDOWS SHIT

[Anonymous Coward]

var _bIsInterstitial = false; //STRIP_COMMENTS_JAVASCRIPT /* FSCOMMAND CODE - Code below generated by Flash MX. */ var InternetExplorer = navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1; // Handle all the the FSCommand messages in a Flash movie function idSWF_DoFSCommand(command, args) { command = parseCommand(command); try { eval(command); } catch(e){/*eat the error*/;} } function parseCommand(str) { if (str.indexOf("handleAdEvent")==0) { // if the timer variable has been declared, pass it along. If not pass along null. try { var strTimer = (_objTimer) ? "_objTimer" : "null"; } catch(e) { strTimer ="null"; } str = str.slice(0,14) + strTimer + ',' + str.slice(14, str.length); // test handler on the top window? if (top.handleAdEvent) str = "top." + str; else { try { // interstitial case - test handler on the opener? if (window.opener.top.handleAdEvent) str = "window.opener.top." + str; } catch(e){/*eat*/;} } } return(str); } // FSCommand Hook for Internet Explorer if(navigator.appName && navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows") != -1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows 3.1") == -1) { idSWF.attachEvent("FSCommand", idSWF_DoFSCommand);

Re:I'm so torn

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it just me, or is watching baseball on TV about as exciting as watching paint dry?

Typical...

[Bl33d4merican]

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

Re:One of these days....

[Anonymous Coward]

Just when I thought I'd seen some of the worst spelling in the universe, ever, a Canadian comes along and smashes that belief. =)

Ok lets start, line by line.

1: Woo-hoo! its all correct (punctuation, or lack thereof, aside)

2: ok, 2 problems here...
* "highered" should be hired
* "jokeing" should be joking

3: 3 problems here...
* "affored" should be afford
* "mussle" should be muscle
* "sueing" should be suing

Doesn't it look incorrect when you hit preview?

Thankyou, that is all.

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?

Re:Say it ain't so!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm guessing you only eat "freedom fries"

Re:I'm so torn

[Anonymous Coward]

TORN? STICKS? MICROSOFT? HAND? WIPED? IMPACT? HAPPY?

GOATSEX!

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