On 15/01/2006, at 5:04 AM, James Devenish in WAMUG Mailing List wrote:

It also states: "Telestream shall have the right, upon reasonable
prior notice to You and during Your normal business hours, to audit
Your use of the Licensed Materials and to inspect Your records related
to any copies of the Software, or portions thereof, made by You." I
assume this is not done via any "back door" mechanism within the
software itself?

snap.

I got to the detailed backup specs and decided that the company should be handled with a 10ft bargepole.
Even if there is no spyware installed, the "agreement" is a joke.
Their freeware and payware definition is also more opaque than Real's - which in comparison is an exercise in freedom of information ;-) If VLC won't handle what WMP won't handle, then I think I'll just have to forgo any content using those codecs until a better solution rolls along.

Nancy M