New RealPlayer Gets Ready to Rip

The new RealPlayer, due at the end of June, will seek to regain popularity as the best and most useful media player on the Internet. It’s great news for Real, and great news for consumers. Real have said they believe their software is operating within the law, but video providers may not agree.
[No kidding.. ya think? -- eds]

RealNetworks are billing it as “the first media player to make it one-click simple to download online videos from thousands of Web sites”, allowing you to save most types of video that haven’t been marked as copyright or non-downloadable to your computer, and then burn them to CD as a with the free Real Player and by sharing the video links with friends as is more commonly done.

It’s too early to know if action will be taken, but chances are that the legal implications are under discussion by multiple parties in multiple companies as we speak, and if it’s planned, we’ll all know soon enough.

via: IT Wire

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