While RealNetworks was celebrating in New York Monday the re-launch of its Web site and a new version of the RealPlayer, back at corporate headquarters in Seattle the firm was being served with a class-action lawsuit over the widely publicized privacy flaw in its RealJukebox music player. Jeffrey Wilens, the plaintiff in the suit filed November 4 in Orange County Superior Court, accuses Real of invasion of privacy, trespass, and unfair competition. An attorney who practices consumer protection law, Wilens alleges that Real (RNWK) violated state business statutes when it failed to pay RealJukebox users the market value of the information it captured from their computers...

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