Progressive Coder
Story by a lawyer fighting the RIAA
It seems the RIAA has quite a twisted view of what copyright infringement entails. They’re claiming that if you make a file available on a P2P network, even though no copies are made of that file, you’re guilty of copyright infringement. Yipes.
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Thunderbird 1.5
Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Thunderbird may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
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