... and while I'm at it, I would like to apologize on behalf of all of us outraged netizens that we had the temerity to actually check on what you people at RealNetworks were doing. Why, if someone hadn't had the nerve to investigate what you'd been recording, and if that person hadn't been so crass as to let people know, and if the general user base hadn't had the audacity to complain about the retention of this information (and God only knows how much else was stored!), you would have been saved all this embarrassment! You wouldn't have been forced to shell out the money for public relations people to cover your assets! And you wouldn't have been required to hire your programmers to throw together a patch to disable what you had no right to take in the first place!
So, yes, I accept your heartfelt and sincere apology, and wish you to know that I will see to it that it never happens again... by refusing to do any business with you. Maybe those who buy your assets after you go into receivership will learn a lesson from this.
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So, yes, I accept your heartfelt and sincere apology, and wish you to know that I will see to it that it never happens again... by refusing to do any business with you. Maybe those who buy your assets after you go into receivership will learn a lesson from this.