The Register is reporting that AOL has to stop shipping AOL 6.0 right now. Click here to learn more, but the basics are that PlayMedia are suing for the AOL Media Player being included. PlayMedia are the people that made the decoding engine for WinAMP, and are miffed that their software wasn't re-licensed for use in the AOL Media Player. The injunction forces ANY AOL product that's not WinAMP using that engine to stop shipping, so AOL 7 is seemingly in jeopardy too.
Of course, I was kind of hoping that it was stopped because of that Winsock (amongst other things) hijacking that AOL's software does that typically stops computers from working. Does it still do that?
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