p2pnet.net News:- For the past three baseball seasons fans wanting radio or streaming video broadcasts of any of the 30 Major League Baseball teams could access the League’s Web site, www.mlb.com, and subscribe to the Game Day Audio package. For a fee to RealNetworks, it allowed them to hear and see games on RealMedia format.

Now RealNetworks has filed against MLB’s interactive media subsidiary in District Court in Seattle claiming the league’s Advanced Media division broke a contract with the Seattle-based company, says a bizjournal report here.

RealNetworks contends that MLB’s Advanced Media (MLBMA) subsidiary agreed to a new contract on February 8, but broke the contract.

"The GDA package now requires subscribers use Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media to hear and see the games, not a RealNetworks format," says the bizjournal story, going on:.

"RealNetworks has suffered, and will continue to suffer, intangible harm for which there is no adequate remedy at law, and damages which are difficult to quantify," RealNetworks claims in the suit.

In December, RealNetworks filed against Microsoft, alleging it violated federal and state antitrust laws and looking for damages that could exceed a billion dollars.

"RealNetworks officials claim Microsoft uses its ‘monopoly power’ to limit how PC makers install competing media players and forces Microsoft Windows users to take Microsoft’s media player ‘whether they want it or not’," adds the story.

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