No definately not.
and the word
was theoretically. What happens is that say, for example, you are listening to your fave rock band, and you see this entry on your MC tree that says "Artist Info" and you click on it.
What happens is an AMG web page opens up inside MC. To get that page, the artist name and your MC version number are sent 1st to jriver, who forward the request to AMG.
Consider this...
while jriver don't know who you are from this, they could
in theory view the statistics sent in these links grouped by ip address. that's all. only when you personally request external information does this happen, not everytime you play a song, ok
(For the record, I am not comfortable with the arrangement.)
Now consider this.....
Suppose AMG were to fold? Suddenly there are all those MC's out there with non-working "Artist Info" tree nodes. This way though, all JRiver need to do is update the redirector and everyone's happy getting there artist info once more.
Seriously, it's nothing like you're thinking, if it were, a)no-one would use it and b)you'd have heard about it in the news
Like Jim says, it's a fine line to dance on