From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Sep 2 5: 5:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9231C37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 05:05:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03-gb.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.15.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4843B43E65 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 05:05:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p60.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.60]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA11400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:04:33 +0200 Received: from moritz.alleswirdgruener (moritz.alleswirdgruener [10.0.0.4]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g82C1Uu02555 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:01:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:01:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgruener To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How "spyware" is Realplayer ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, the EU is doing a probe against Reals use of cookies but somebody said, that Real is collecting data of every downloaded(streamed) content from everywhere anyway. That there is not only communication between the client and the server from which things are downloaded, but also a communication between the client and a central server in all cases of streaming, that cant be disabled. Is this true? Maybe Ross can shed some light on this. The egregious halls of rtsp... H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message