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...whine into the telephone at Rob Glaser, founder and CEO of Real Networks. I am very agitated, O.K.? I admit it. Last week The New York Times broke a story reporting that RealJukebox, one of the most popular pieces of music-playing software on the Net, is a secret...
...online, a sneaky little subroutine has been quietly shuttling that data over to Real's servers and dumping them into their files. Since I had to register my name to get the jukebox software, who I am and what music I like have been surreptitiously databased by Glaser's company. Without my or anybody else's consent. How rude...
...asked Rob Glaser, the notoriously fair-minded boss of Seattle-based RealNetworks, if he ever had any friends in the recording industry. He said he did--and still does. He claims that JukeBox won't hurt traditional recording interests and may even do good by educating people about the importance of protecting intellectual property. "People like artists," he said. Glaser points out that JukeBox comes preconfigured in an antipiracy mode that warns users not to violate copyright laws and prevents stored copies of songs from being sent from your hard drive to the Internet. Of course, you can bypass this...
...those Gen X kids were lazy, ignorant losers, but I guess I was wrong. They're actually brilliant, ambitious, ironic folks who live at home till they're 30 and watch as much TV as they can!" I hope I'm not going to be redefined next issue. ROB GLASER Chicago...
...fully developed. Their brains are more vulnerable to HIV. When they get sick with AIDS, many of them deteriorate more rapidly than adults. They need treatments tailored to their size and condition. "But pharmaceutical companies do not perceive pediatric drugs as a huge market share," says Glaser, chairman of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation co-founded by his wife with two of her friends in 1988. "They're not going to spend a lot of time and money on it unless we give them the incentive...