Hard to find? Not a problem, after all..."Anything free is worth saving for."
Comes with advertisements? Well, you get what you pay for. I guess I can stomach some advertisements.
Repeatedly asking to register? Okay, that's annoying as hell; but I'm not going to use it that much, just to view ReamMedia files.
What pissed me right off was after I installed it, it changed the default player for all the media formats (except the proprietary ones, of course) to play in RealPlayer. I go back and switch all the defaults back to Windows Media player. I start up the computer back up the next day, and all of the defaults are pointing back to RealPlayer. I went through this twice before finally uninstalling this piece of garbage.
I have no patience with companies that pull stuff like that.
The bill in question is S.877 The contents of the bill haven't been posted to Thomas yet, but should be in a day or two.
I can't really say what I think about the bill, just yet, because the articles I've read are giving conflicting stories. One article says that ISPs will be able to sue spammers, while another indicates that only the state attorneys general will be able to.
I can say that the DMA is supporting, if not the bill itself then, the idea of anti-spam legislation...which gives me some pause.
You don't even have to propose a hypothetical "collect call" scenario. It is already illegal for telemarketers to solicit people via their cell phones and fax machines, precisely because of the cost shifting involved.
The precedent has already been set, to limit the media that marketers can use.
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Hard to find? Not a problem, after all..."Anything free is worth saving for."
Comes with advertisements? Well, you get what you pay for. I guess I can stomach some advertisements.
Repeatedly asking to register? Okay, that's annoying as hell; but I'm not going to use it that much, just to view ReamMedia files.
What pissed me right off was after I installed it, it changed the default player for all the media formats (except the proprietary ones, of course) to play in RealPlayer. I go back and switch all the defaults back to Windows Media player. I start up the computer back up the next day, and all of the defaults are pointing back to RealPlayer. I went through this twice before finally uninstalling this piece of garbage.
I have no patience with companies that pull stuff like that.
Moutain Dew, computer screen. Computer screen, moutain dew. I'll leave you two alone to get better aquainted. :)
The bill in question is S.877 The contents of the bill haven't been posted to Thomas yet, but should be in a day or two.
I can't really say what I think about the bill, just yet, because the articles I've read are giving conflicting stories. One article says that ISPs will be able to sue spammers, while another indicates that only the state attorneys general will be able to.
I can say that the DMA is supporting, if not the bill itself then, the idea of anti-spam legislation...which gives me some pause.You don't even have to propose a hypothetical "collect call" scenario. It is already illegal for telemarketers to solicit people via their cell phones and fax machines, precisely because of the cost shifting involved.
The precedent has already been set, to limit the media that marketers can use.