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Yes, this was a mechanism that RealPlayer implemented many years ago, to "protect" the original video file. The .ram file is basically a gateway/pointer to the actual video .rm file. Really no way to get around it that I've found, unless the direct link is discoverable from the .ram file.

RHenriksen wrote: ...who enters academia, by and large? Not 2A types (well, except for the hard sciences, and they're not the ones running the asylum).

Thanks for that stipulation -- and you're correct on both counts!