Open .bin files wihtout Stuffit Expander?

Hi,
I need to install the Windows Media Player 9 because of some streaming movies that currently have troubles with the latest Flip4Mac. So I downloaded WMP9 from the Microsoft site, which is a .bin file.
Unfortunately I am unable to open this .bin file. I know there is an application called Stuffit Expander. But before I can download this application I have to fill in my e-mail address to get an e-mail with the download link. This is definitely not something I enjoy doing. It seems pretty weird to me that even Apple is suggestion software from this vendor.
Is there any alternative?

Hi, prupert.
You wrote: "So why are they not just offering the download with a link on their website, as most software vendors do?"You'll have to ask Smith Micro, as they now own Allume (nee Aladdin), the developers of StuffIt.
You can easily opt-out of their marketing e-mails with the first one you receive per the instructions below the Submit button on the page page in question.
The file you downloaded — which I suspect is
WindowsMediaInstaller.bin
from this page — is not a proper MacBinary (.bin) file. It is actually a StuffIt X archive and can only be opened in StuffIt Expander. This can be seen by opening the file in either TextEdit or a hexadecimal editor, like HexEdit, where you will see the following at the start of the file:
Windows Media.sitx
If it were a true MacBinary file, then if you downloaded it with Safari, it would be expanded without need for StuffIt. However, if I download it in Safari, the download is assigned the .sitx extension, not bin.
So, you need StuffIt Expander to decompress the download.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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Xpost because many people have posted about the same thing: downloaded .BIN files not opening/opening incorrectly etc. [I'll offer this up as a User TIP because the problem isn't going away for a while...)
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Here's a more complete explanation - because I'm seeing it as a widespread problem (and I really don't know why so many sites seem to be switching to some variant of BIN instead of .SIT, ZIP, TAR, GZ, DMG, or one of the many other formats and extensions which don't have the 'confusion' problem I'm outlining...).
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Simple, eh ?
grin.
Please write if you need more.
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Xpost because many people have posted about the same thing: downloaded .BIN files not opening/opening incorrectly etc. [I'll offer this up as a User TIP because the problem isn't going away for a while...)
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Please write if you need more.
Best wishes,
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