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Originally posted by sipsake
... if I had a dollar for everytime a..
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user claimed that installing RealPlayer caused their hardware to fail I'd retire too.
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Please stop blaming the consumer for Real's piss poor reputation.
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I'm not blaming the consumer. No doubt, Real has done a lot of things that piss people off, but a lot of things are changing around here and this thread is my attempt to point them out to people who otherwise wouldn't notice.
Visit real.com and you'll see that the free player is available in two clicks- no trickery whatsoever. Is there marketting? Yes. Is it intrusive? Not in my book.
A word of warning: if you do try to download the player and you are asked to install an activeX plugin, just say no and the installer will start downloading. The plugin is a download manager that allows you to pause/resume the download- (installing it will only affect downloads that specifically request it), but you don't need it so don't bother.