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| Thread ID: 41075 | 2003-12-29 09:44:00 | What are the catches, if any, with installing Windows Media Player? | ssssss (2100) | Press F1 |
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| 203929 | 2003-12-30 08:07:00 | media player 9 happily reports back to MS what you watch/listen and copy with media player! if you're not doing anything illegal than you have nothing to worry about. WM9 only lets you rip music to 128k though - not 192k ( from memory ) unless you get a "hack" that lets you do it at 192k. well thats SOME of what it offers ;) :) |
zminos (5010) | ||
| 203930 | 2003-12-30 08:21:00 | > media player 9 happily reports back to MS what you > watch/listen and copy with media player! > > if you're not doing anything illegal than you have > nothing to worry about. The mind boggles. How many people worldwide have WM9 and how many people at MS are monitoring what is playing at anyone given moment in time Used to be a Mad Mad World. Now its just a paranoid one. The Asprins are that ------------- > way! |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 203931 | 2003-12-30 08:43:00 | > media player 9 happily reports back to MS what you > watch/listen and copy with media player! How do you know this? :) And how are Microsoft going to know what it is you are looking at or watching? If you're worried, rename the file :) It's not going to be able to "secretly" send the whole file (esp if your watching a DivX movie) via dial-up to Microsoft. And besides, why would MS care? > if you're not doing anything illegal than you have > nothing to worry about. Even if you were, how would MS know? I'm sick of the paranoia! I use MP9 and I'm very happy with it. Its quick to load, easy to use, doesn't use resources, doesn't send info back to MS, and doesn't spy on me. Suits me fine. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 203932 | 2003-12-30 09:37:00 | what happens on 98SE with the latest WMP www.freelists.org also seems to be a 50/50 slit in opinion online download.com.com |
kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 203933 | 2003-12-30 10:16:00 | Well funnily enough, a short video that one of the kids downloaded would not play on WMP whilst connected to the internet but it would play when offline . It played regardless of internet connection in Zoomplayer though . Figure that one out . ;-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 203934 | 2003-12-30 10:24:00 | I AM STILL ON 98SE with wmp 7 AND IT WORKS OK. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE RESOURCES USED COMPARED TO ZOOMPLAYER , no way am I going to use WMP ,when it chews up my resources and ram I am only running a 1.3 cpu with 512 ram lol . plus it keeps trying to phone home , |
kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 203935 | 2003-12-30 11:45:00 | I have no problems with Version 9. Just tell the Firewall (Sygate in my case) not to allow any signals out from the player. | Mzee (158) | ||
| 203936 | 2003-12-31 02:34:00 | in windows media 9 you can opt to block microsoft by noting the correct options during install. some of those options still exist after install in tools/options/privacy . so microsoft can't just snoop willy nilly. also with a firewall eg zonealarm one can stop wmp9 having free access to the net anyway. as for baldy all i can say is what one is doing and whether it's legal is irrelevant. it is the right to privacy that is relevant. since i work at inland revenue maybe he would like me to look through all his finances....and share it all with you later. no harm i'm sure, it would all be legal. oh and wmp9 is better, especially in the areas of compression and download control quality. |
jontext88 (1430) | ||
| 203937 | 2003-12-31 09:41:00 | > Try WinAmp 5.01 then Have done, thanks and it is an improvement to my old version of WinAmp. |
ssssss (2100) | ||
| 203938 | 2004-06-25 02:16:00 | I just came across the printout to this thread which I had kept as a reminder not to download v9. Unfortunately in a "momentary lapse of reason", and because "Cool Blue" seemed to demand it a couple of days ago, I did go ahead and download. :O I now have the conundrum as to whether to try a restore, which I have never done before. It would mean then reloading Zoner Draw 3 and one Windows Update which I had downloaded since Media Player 9 -- but which are not biggies ! I note however that if you have a firewall, which I do (ZoneAlarm) then it should not be quite as obtrusive. I don't use the media a great deal (also have RealAudio and QuickTime). Is it worth the powder and shot to restore ? Also presumably there is some risk in restoring that is always associated even if only to a minor degree. Misty ?:| |
Misty (368) | ||
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