As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 9, 2003

Registration No. 333-_______

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under
The Securities Act of 1933

REALNETWORKS, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Washington	91-1628146
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

2601 Elliott Avenue, Suite 1000
Seattle, Washington 98121
(206) 674-2700
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

REALNETWORKS, INC. 2002 DIRECTOR STOCK OPTION PLAN

(Full title of the plan)

Brian V. Turner
Senior Vice President, Finance and Operations,
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
RealNetworks, Inc.
2601 Elliott Avenue, Suite 1000
Seattle, Washington 98121
(206) 674-2700
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies of all communications should be sent to:

Patrick J. Schultheis, Esq.
Christian E. Montegut, Esq.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation
5300 Carillon Point
Kirkland, WA 98033-7356
(425) 576-5800

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

					Proposed Maximum
Title of Securities	Amount to Be		Proposed Maximum		Aggregate Offering		Amount of
to Be Registered	Registered(1)		Offering Price Per Share(2)		Price(2)		Registration Fee
Common Stock, $.001 par value		750,000	$	4.20	$	3,150,000	$	289.80

(1) Together with (i) an indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock that may become issuable under the RealNetworks, Inc. 2002 Director Stock Option Plan (the “Plan”), as a result of the adjustment provisions therein, and (ii) if any interests in the Plan constitute separate securities required to be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, then, pursuant to Rule 416(c), an indeterminate amount of such interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the Plan.

(2) Estimated in part pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and in part pursuant to Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act. With respect to 135,000 shares subject to outstanding options to purchase Common Stock under the Plan, the Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share is equal to the weighted average exercise price of $5.6763 per share pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act. With respect to 615,000 shares of Common Stock available for future grant under the Plan, the estimated Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share was estimated pursuant to Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act whereby the per share price is the average between the high and low price reported on the Nasdaq National Market on January 7, 2003, which average was $3.875. The Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share represents a weighted average of the foregoing estimates calculated in accordance with Rules 457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART II                      INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
	Item 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
	Item 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES
	Item 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL
	Item 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
	Item 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED
	Item 8. EXHIBITS
	Item 9. UNDERTAKINGS
SIGNATURES
INDEX TO EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT 5.1
EXHIBIT 23.2

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

     The following documents are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

     (a)  The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001, filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”);

     (b)  The Registrant’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2002, June 30, 2002 and September 30, 2002;

     (c)  The description of the Registrant’s Common Stock set forth in the Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 26, 1997, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description; and

     (d)  The description of the Registrant’s preferred stock purchase rights set forth in the Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 14, 1998, as amended on June 16, 1999 and February 7, 2000, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

     All documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all of the securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all of the securities covered hereby then remaining unsold, shall also be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof commencing on the respective dates on which such documents are filed.

     Any statement incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

     Not required.

Item 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

     Not applicable.

Item 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

     Sections 23B.08.500 through 23B.08.600 of the Washington Business Corporation Act (the “WBCA”) authorize a court to award, or a corporation’s board of directors to grant, indemnification to directors and officers on terms sufficiently broad to permit indemnification under certain circumstances for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The registrant’s Restated Articles of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws provide for indemnification of the registrant’s directors, officers, employees and agents to the maximum extent permitted by Washington law. The directors and officers of the registrant also may be indemnified against liability they may incur for serving in that capacity pursuant to a liability insurance policy maintained by the registrant for such purpose. Section 23B.08.320 of the WBCA authorizes a corporation to limit a director’s liability to the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for acts or omissions as a director, except in certain circumstances involving intentional misconduct, knowing violations of law or illegal corporate loans or distributions, or any transaction from which the director personally receives a benefit in money, property or services to which the director is not legally entitled. The registrant’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation contain provisions implementing, to the fullest extent permitted by Washington law, such limitations on a director’s liability to the registrant and its shareholders. The registrant has entered into certain indemnification agreements with its officers and directors. The indemnification agreements provide the registrant’s officers and directors with indemnification to the maximum extent permitted by the WBCA.

Item 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

     Not applicable.

Item 8. EXHIBITS

Exhibit
Number	Description
5.1	Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.
10.1	RealNetworks, Inc. 2002 Director Stock Option Plan (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 10.2 to RealNetworks’ Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2002 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 25, 2002)
10.2	Forms of Stock Option Agreement under the RealNetworks, Inc. 2002 Director Stock Option Plan (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 10.3 to RealNetworks’ Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2002 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 14, 2002)
23.1	Consent of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. (included in opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1)
23.2	Consent of KPMG LLP
24.1	Power of Attorney (included on signature page)

Item 9. UNDERTAKINGS

A.     The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

     (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

          (i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

          (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of this Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in this Registration Statement; and

          (iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this Registration Statement; provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

     (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered that remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

B.     The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefits plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

C.     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Seattle, State of Washington, on January 7, 2003.

REALNETWORKS, INC.
By:	/s/ Robert Glaser
	Robert Glaser
	Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Robert Glaser and Brian V. Turner, and each of them severally, as such person’s attorneys-in-fact, with the power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (including post-effective amendments or any abbreviated registration statement and any amendments thereto filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) increasing the number of securities for which registration is sought), and to file the same with all exhibits thereto and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitutie or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated below on the 7th day of January, 2003.

Signature	Title
/s/ Robert Glaser Robert Glaser	Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Brian V. Turner Brian V. Turner	Senior Vice President, Finance and Operations, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
/s/ Edward Bleier Edward Bleier	Director
/s/ James W. Breyer James W. Breyer	Director
/s/ Jeremy Jaech Jeremy Jaech	Director
Kalpana Raina	Director

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit
Number	Description
5.1	Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.
10.1	RealNetworks, Inc. 2002 Director Stock Option Plan (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 10.2 to RealNetworks’ Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2002 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 25, 2002)
10.2	Forms of Stock Option Agreement under the RealNetworks, Inc. 2002 Director Stock Option Plan (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 10.3 to RealNetworks’ Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2002 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 14, 2002)
23.1	Consent of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. (included in opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1)
23.2	Consent of KPMG LLP
24.1	Power of Attorney (included on signature page)