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UnBox Calls Home, A Lot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-lonely dept.

SachiCALaw writes "It turns out that to use UnBox, the user has to download software from Amazon that contains a Windows service (ADVWindowsClientService.exe). Tom Merritt over at C|Net reports that the service tries to connect to the internet quite frequently. Even tweaking msconfig could not prevent it." From the article: "So, in summary, to be allowed the privilege of purchasing a video that I can't burn to DVD and can't watch on my iPod, I have to allow a program to hijack my start-up and force me to login to uninstall it? No way. Sorry, Amazon. I love a lot of what you do, but I will absolutely not recommend this service. Try again."

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  1. What is the point? by linzeal · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Half of the Unvideo searches I ran were more expensive than the DVDs.

    Check out Unbox's 12 monkeys and the special edition DVD with over 2 hours more video.

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