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Tuesday April 20, 2004
11:01 AM
Die MLB.com Die
I signed up, for $15, to listen to all the Major League Baseball games online, back on March 4. Shortly after this, on March 24, MLB.com announced a deal with Microsoft where they would make most content available only through Windows Media Player.
The short of it is that after I signed up, MLB.com changed the deal, and made it so I could only listen to the archived games -- that I paid for -- if I used Windows Media Player, instead of Real Player, as I had been doing.
This is called "customer service," where the customer is, of course, Microsoft, and not me. I am demanding my money back, of course. I hope many more people do the same.
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I'm sure that Microsoft paid a pretty penny for the exclusive rights in this situation, which in a way, you could be thankful for. It helps to subsidize your membership fee, gives the service a renewed stability investment and Microsoft's coffers are ever-so-slightly more diminished.
Just press play and minimize it in the background
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That is a matter of opinion, and completely beside the point. The agreement I signed up under said I could use Real Player.
However, I'll note that Windows Media Player simply doesn't work properly. Even if it did, I wouldn't want to use it, because of its horrifically bad EULA.
I don't see what the big deal is.
Why should you? All that matters is they broke their agreement.
It shouldn't interfere with your enjoyment of the content.
If Mic
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See? Creativity not required!
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Microsoft provides ervice (Score:2)