Once or twice.
I'm baffled by them, too. I got a notice saying my Realplayer was out of date so asked me if I wanted the upgrade, I said yes, and it did it... and then seemed to be refusing to allow me to use the "download" function that I've become so reliant on of late. It even seemed to be implying you had to start paying for that privilege now.
Except this morning, its back to normal again. Weird.
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