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RIAA Gets Nervous, Brings In Big Gun 423

Posted by Soulskill from the headlines-that-would-be-better-if-they-were-literal dept.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "I guess the RIAA is getting nervous about the ability of its 'national law firm' (in charge of bringing 'ex parte' motions, securing default judgments, and beating up grandmothers and children) to handle the oral argument scheduled to be heard on Monday, August 4th in Duluth, in Capitol v. Thomas. So, at the eleventh hour, it has brought in one of its 'Big Guns' from Washington, D.C., a lawyer who argues United States Supreme Court cases like MGM v. Grokster to handle the argument. This is the case where a $222,000 verdict was awarded for downloading 24 songs, but the judge ultimately realized that he had been misled by the RIAA in issuing his jury instructions, and indicated he's probably going to order a new trial. But, not to worry. A group of 10 copyright law professors from 10 different law schools and several other amici curiae (friends of the court) have filed briefs now, so it is highly unlikely the judge will allow himself to be misled again, no matter who the RIAA brings in as cannon fodder on Monday."

Comment Re:What astonishes me... (Score 1) 475

by OlPete (#24285455) Attached to: Firefox's Effect On Other Browsers

For the *unwashed masses* tabs is the only positive feature of FF.

Well, I suppose a study could be done to determine this, but based purely on my interactions with others, that's not the case.

Early-on, those who might be considered among the "unwashed masses" I knew were actually confused by tabs. And I'll have to admit I was initially resistant to the idea until I became accustomed to it and realized how much easier it made my browsing life. (I'd used Opera before encountering Firefox and wasn't particularly impressed by tabs.) One client I had way back when, for example, never used the tabs, but he liked certain extensions and used them a lot.

You said it yourself with your comment about AdBlock.

I agree with your bottom line, though. I've never thought that one browser being declared superior to all the others was a desirable goal. I use four different browsers actually, Firefox being most common. They've all improved a great deal in the last several years, and I think Firefox's success (not just its technical success but its success in infiltrating the browser market itself) has had a great influence on that.
Hardware Hacking

VLC Hits the Device Market 159

Posted by timothy from the long-time-coming dept.
JoeBorn writes "VideoLAN has long been known as a mature open source project for video playback and transcoding on the PC. Now, Neuros and Texas Instruments have sponsored a port of VLC to their next generation open set-top box. The idea is to allow developers to easily create interesting plug-ins for recording and transcoding applications for the set-top box which will automate functions previously requiring a PC, like formating recordings for a portable player or streaming to another device on the LAN or the Internet, etc."

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