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The Courts

Journal Journal: Big Win for Innocent RIAA Defendant

Journal by lpq

Good news for an "almost" victim of the RIAA: "she's won back her attorneys' fees. The decision today is one of the first in the country to award attorneys fees to a defendant in an RIAA case over music sharing on the Internet." Another, similar "writeup: Court Awards Wrongly Sued Woman Legal Fees From The RIAA; Calls Lawsuits Frivolous And Unreasonable
Linux Business

Submission + - MS trojans Linux Asia 2007

Submitted by
tanveer1979
tanveer1979 writes: "Being a Partner for Linux Asia 2007 may be a great move by Microsoft, but the Linux India community, esp the are not happy about MS trojan horse in the event.

Allegations are flying thick with explanations being demanded from the Organizers(FOSSI). Their official response on the list has not gone down well with the members of the community who equate the move to having KFC sponsor a vegetarians conference. The biggest gripe is that having Microsoft as "Interoperability partner" led to the entire OSS spectrum at the event being overshadowed by them, and also prompted many key figures of the Indian OSS movement away from the event."
Announcements

Submission + - NTFS-3G going stable AND NTFS released for Mac

Submitted by JDShewey
JDShewey writes: The NTFS-3G project just announced that they will be going stable and have just released their first release canditate (NTFS-3G RC1) This comes shortly after NTFS support is announced for mac (as well as many other file systems) through MacFUSE which is the framework needed by NTFS-3G to mount.
Data Storage

Submission + - Carbon Nanotubes For Non-Volative Computer Memory

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at the University of California have developed telescoping carbon nanotube memory which is non-volatile and may offer the possibility of atomic-scale computer data storage that would replace both RAM, FLASH RAM, and hard drive storage in the next few cycles. The URL is http://www.physorg.com/news89986583.html.
The Media

Submission + - Judge: RIAA Must Pay Defendant's Legal Fees

Submitted by
evanwired
evanwired writes: "Debbie Foster, an RIAA file sharing defendant whose case was dismissed last summer, has just won a request for legal fees. Eliot Van Buskirk at Wired's Listening Post blog obtained a copy (PDF) of Judge Lee R. West's Order, issued today, in which the judge grants Foster an award of "reasonable attorney fees in this action under 505 of the Copyright Act," but denies her "attorneys' fees under 28 U.S.C. 1927." Foster's attorney says her client is pleased with the result and will likely recoup $50,000 or more. If she's right, that's an outcome that could have significant consequences for the RIAA's litigation strategy."
Music

RIAA Says CDs Should Cost More 540

Posted by kdawson from the when-bandersnatchii-fly dept.
EatingSteak writes "The folks over at Techdirt just put up a great story today, with the RIAA claiming the cost of a CD has gone down significantly relative to the consumer price index. The RIAA 'Key Facts' page claims that based on the 1983 price of CDs, the 1996 price should have been $33.86. So naturally, you should feel like you're getting a bargain. Sounds an awful lot like the cable companies saying cable prices are really going down even though they're going up."
Microsoft

Submission + - 19 Coutries File OpenXML Contradictions

Submitted by
Excelcia
Excelcia writes: "The deadline for filing contradictions on the Microsoft OpenXML ISO bid, and the results are in. A total of 19 countries have filed, comprising most of the free world, although the United States seems to be absent from the list. From Andy Upgrove's Blog on the subject:

This may not only be the largest number of countries that have ever submitted contradictions in the ISO/IEC process, but nineteen responses is greater than the total number of national bodies that often bother to vote on a proposed standard at all ... All in all, not a very auspicious start for OOXML. And not one that augers well for a very fast Fast Track experience. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft deals with this slap in the face.
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Software

Texas Bill For Open Documents 197

Posted by kdawson from the et-tu-texas? dept.
Ditesh Kumar tips us to a blog entry by Sam Hiser noting a bill filed in Texas that would require state agencies to conduct their work in an open document format. After Microsoft's grueling battle against ODF in Massachusetts, bluest of blue states, it must be galling to face te same fight in the reddest of the red. Hiser notes that the bill includes a rigorous and sound definition of an open document format, which ODF would meet but Microsoft's current OOXML submission would not.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Locking-up Educators ...

Submitted by trendadue
trendadue writes: Published in the New York Times — Microsoft is letting the boom drop on a teacher that purchased Microsoft's OS, claiming that the software was not legally licensed:

"The case of the teacher, Aleksandr Ponosov, has drawn wide public attention in Russia, in part because the principal says he innocently purchased computers with the unauthorized Windows software already installed." (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/technology/06pi rate.html).

Maybe they should be using Linux and related open-source software — this would probably reduce the chances of getting hauled off to Siberia over a misunderstanding.
United States

Submission + - US RoHS

Submitted by
Renee Micheals
Renee Micheals writes: "In "U.S. RoHS: To be or not to be?" the case is made for a U.S. version of the EU's Restriction on Hazardous Substances directive. A version here would be very controversial, as it would force all US electronics makers and anyone who ships electronics to teh US to change the way they make electronics. See: http://www.edn.com/blog/570000257/post/120006812.h tml"

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