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DATE 2009-02-16
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This should be interesating. I read some of the letters they would send
back to copywrite lawyers and they struck me as having a lot of humor, as
well as total confidence that the law was on their side.

My favorite reply was the one where they claimed their in house lawyer was
recovering from a hangover.

On Feb 16, 2009 2:13 PM, "Ruben Safir" wrote:

BBC NEWS / TECHNOLOGY
Graphics Version | Change to UK Version | BBC Sport Home News Front Page
| Africa | Americas | Asia-Pacific | Europe | Middle East | South Asia |
UK | Business | Health | Science & Environment | Technology |
Entertainment | Also in the news | Video and Audio | Have Your Say |
16:36 GMT, Monday, 16 February 2009
Pirate Bay file-sharing defended
Gottfrid Svartholm Varg, partially obscured, and Peter Sunde

The founders of a website which carries links to copies of music, films
and TV programmes have gone on trial in Sweden on charges of copyright
theft.

The Pirate Bay is the world's most high-profile file-sharing site and is
being taken to court by media firms including Sony and Warner Bros.

The men face up to two years in prison and a fine of $143,500, if
convicted.

"File-sharing services can be used both legally and illegally," defence
lawyer Per Samuelsson said.

Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi and Carl
Lundstorm have portrayed themselves as digital libertarians and say that
they cannot be prosecuted for copyright theft because none of the
content is hosted on their computer servers.

The men are accused of "promoting other people's infringements of
copyright laws", according to charges filed by senior public prosecutor
Haakan Roswall.

Representatives of the movie, music and video games industry are seeking
about 115 million kronor (10.6 million euros) in damages and interest
for losses incurred from tens of millions of illegal downloads
facilitated by the site.

FROM THE BBC WORLD SERVICE
More from BBC World Service

"It is legal to offer a service that can be used in both a legal and
illegal way, according to Swedish law," Mr Samuelsson said at the
opening of the trial, which is expected to last three weeks.

He said the site "can be compared to making cars that can be driven
faster than the speed limit".

Monique Wadsted, a lawyer representing media firms, including Warner
Bros and MGM, involved in the case said: "It's not a political trial,
it's not a trial about shutting down a people's library, and it's not a
trial that wants to prohibit file-sharing as a technique.


"It's not a political trial"

Monique Wadsted, lawyer


"It's a trial that regards four individuals that have conducted a big
commercial business making money out of others' file-sharing works,
copyright-protected movies, hit music, popular computer games, etc."

The Pirate Bay, which was founded in 2003, directs people to "torrent"
links, which allow file-sharing program BitTorrent to download and
upload files among potentially millions of users.

"They have already failed to take down the site once. Let them fail
again"
Gottfrid Warg

Swedish police raided the company's offices several times and seized
nearly 200 servers in 2006, temporarily closing the site. But it
re-opened a few days later with servers hosted in different countries.

Mr Warg, in a webcast on Sunday, said: "What are they going to do about
it? They have already failed to take down the site once. Let them fail
again.

"It has a life without us."

John Kennedy, chairman of the International Federation of the
Phonographic Industries, representing 1,400 member record companies
worldwide, said: "The Pirate Bay has hurt creators of many different
kinds of works, from music to film, from books to TV programmes. It has
been particularly harmful in distributing copyrighted works prior to
their official release.

"This damages sales of music at the most important time of their
lifecycle."

Mr Kennedy said the four men had "made substantial amounts of money"
from the site, "despite their claim to be only interested in spreading
culture for free".

On Sunday, Mr Sunde said: "It does not matter if they require several
million (kronor) or one billion. We are not rich and have no money to
pay."
--
http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software

So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like
Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI
Safir 1998

http://fairuse.nylxs.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir
2002

"Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"

"The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our
own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own
society."

"> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.<
You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been
attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you
missed that one."

(c) Copyright for the Digital Millennium

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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

This should be interesating.  I read some of the letters they would send back to copywrite lawyers and they struck me as having a lot of humor, as well as total confidence that the law was on their side.


My favorite reply was the one where they claimed their in house lawyer was recovering from a hangover.


On Feb 16, 2009 2:13 PM, "Ruben Safir" <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> wrote:

BBC NEWS / TECHNOLOGY

Graphics Version | Change to UK Version | BBC Sport Home News Front Page

| Africa | Americas | Asia-Pacific | Europe | Middle East | South Asia |

UK | Business | Health | Science & Environment | Technology |

Entertainment | Also in the news | Video and Audio | Have Your Say |

16:36 GMT, Monday, 16 February 2009

Pirate Bay file-sharing defended

Gottfrid Svartholm Varg, partially obscured, and Peter Sunde



The founders of a website which carries links to copies of music, films

and TV programmes have gone on trial in Sweden on charges of copyright

theft.



The Pirate Bay is the world's most high-profile file-sharing site and is

being taken to court by media firms including Sony and Warner Bros.



The men face up to two years in prison and a fine of $143,500, if

convicted.



"File-sharing services can be used both legally and illegally," defence

lawyer Per Samuelsson said.



Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi and Carl

Lundstorm have portrayed themselves as digital libertarians and say that

they cannot be prosecuted for copyright theft because none of the

content is hosted on their computer servers.



The men are accused of "promoting other people's infringements of

copyright laws", according to charges filed by senior public prosecutor

Haakan Roswall.



Representatives of the movie, music and video games industry are seeking

about 115 million kronor (10.6 million euros) in damages and interest

for losses incurred from tens of millions of illegal downloads

facilitated by the site.



FROM THE BBC WORLD SERVICE

More from BBC World Service



"It is legal to offer a service that can be used in both a legal and

illegal way, according to Swedish law," Mr Samuelsson said at the

opening of the trial, which is expected to last three weeks.



He said the site "can be compared to making cars that can be driven

faster than the speed limit".



Monique Wadsted, a lawyer representing media firms, including Warner

Bros and MGM, involved in the case said: "It's not a political trial,

it's not a trial about shutting down a people's library, and it's not a

trial that wants to prohibit file-sharing as a technique.





"It's not a political trial"



Monique Wadsted, lawyer





"It's a trial that regards four individuals that have conducted a big

commercial business making money out of others' file-sharing works,

copyright-protected movies, hit music, popular computer games, etc."



The Pirate Bay, which was founded in 2003, directs people to "torrent"

links, which allow file-sharing program BitTorrent to download and

upload files among potentially millions of users.



"They have already failed to take down the site once. Let them fail

again"

Gottfrid Warg



Swedish police raided the company's offices several times and seized

nearly 200 servers in 2006, temporarily closing the site. But it

re-opened a few days later with servers hosted in different countries.



Mr Warg, in a webcast on Sunday, said: "What are they going to do about

it? They have already failed to take down the site once. Let them fail

again.



"It has a life without us."



John Kennedy, chairman of the International Federation of the

Phonographic Industries, representing 1,400 member record companies

worldwide, said: "The Pirate Bay has hurt creators of many different

kinds of works, from music to film, from books to TV programmes. It has

been particularly harmful in distributing copyrighted works prior to

their official release.



"This damages sales of music at the most important time of their

lifecycle."



Mr Kennedy said the four men had "made substantial amounts of money"

from the site, "despite their claim to be only interested in spreading

culture for free".



On Sunday, Mr Sunde said: "It does not matter if they require several

million (kronor) or one billion. We are not rich and have no money to

pay."

--

http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff

http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software



So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world  - RI Safir 1998



http://fairuse.nylxs.com  DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002



"Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"



"The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society."



"> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.<

You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt.  I guess you missed that one."



© Copyright for the Digital Millennium



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This should be interesating. I read some of the letters they would send
back to copywrite lawyers and they struck me as having a lot of humor, as
well as total confidence that the law was on their side.

My favorite reply was the one where they claimed their in house lawyer was
recovering from a hangover.

On Feb 16, 2009 2:13 PM, "Ruben Safir" wrote:

BBC NEWS / TECHNOLOGY
Graphics Version | Change to UK Version | BBC Sport Home News Front Page
| Africa | Americas | Asia-Pacific | Europe | Middle East | South Asia |
UK | Business | Health | Science & Environment | Technology |
Entertainment | Also in the news | Video and Audio | Have Your Say |
16:36 GMT, Monday, 16 February 2009
Pirate Bay file-sharing defended
Gottfrid Svartholm Varg, partially obscured, and Peter Sunde

The founders of a website which carries links to copies of music, films
and TV programmes have gone on trial in Sweden on charges of copyright
theft.

The Pirate Bay is the world's most high-profile file-sharing site and is
being taken to court by media firms including Sony and Warner Bros.

The men face up to two years in prison and a fine of $143,500, if
convicted.

"File-sharing services can be used both legally and illegally," defence
lawyer Per Samuelsson said.

Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi and Carl
Lundstorm have portrayed themselves as digital libertarians and say that
they cannot be prosecuted for copyright theft because none of the
content is hosted on their computer servers.

The men are accused of "promoting other people's infringements of
copyright laws", according to charges filed by senior public prosecutor
Haakan Roswall.

Representatives of the movie, music and video games industry are seeking
about 115 million kronor (10.6 million euros) in damages and interest
for losses incurred from tens of millions of illegal downloads
facilitated by the site.

FROM THE BBC WORLD SERVICE
More from BBC World Service

"It is legal to offer a service that can be used in both a legal and
illegal way, according to Swedish law," Mr Samuelsson said at the
opening of the trial, which is expected to last three weeks.

He said the site "can be compared to making cars that can be driven
faster than the speed limit".

Monique Wadsted, a lawyer representing media firms, including Warner
Bros and MGM, involved in the case said: "It's not a political trial,
it's not a trial about shutting down a people's library, and it's not a
trial that wants to prohibit file-sharing as a technique.


"It's not a political trial"

Monique Wadsted, lawyer


"It's a trial that regards four individuals that have conducted a big
commercial business making money out of others' file-sharing works,
copyright-protected movies, hit music, popular computer games, etc."

The Pirate Bay, which was founded in 2003, directs people to "torrent"
links, which allow file-sharing program BitTorrent to download and
upload files among potentially millions of users.

"They have already failed to take down the site once. Let them fail
again"
Gottfrid Warg

Swedish police raided the company's offices several times and seized
nearly 200 servers in 2006, temporarily closing the site. But it
re-opened a few days later with servers hosted in different countries.

Mr Warg, in a webcast on Sunday, said: "What are they going to do about
it? They have already failed to take down the site once. Let them fail
again.

"It has a life without us."

John Kennedy, chairman of the International Federation of the
Phonographic Industries, representing 1,400 member record companies
worldwide, said: "The Pirate Bay has hurt creators of many different
kinds of works, from music to film, from books to TV programmes. It has
been particularly harmful in distributing copyrighted works prior to
their official release.

"This damages sales of music at the most important time of their
lifecycle."

Mr Kennedy said the four men had "made substantial amounts of money"
from the site, "despite their claim to be only interested in spreading
culture for free".

On Sunday, Mr Sunde said: "It does not matter if they require several
million (kronor) or one billion. We are not rich and have no money to
pay."
--
http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software

So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like
Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI
Safir 1998

http://fairuse.nylxs.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir
2002

"Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"

"The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our
own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own
society."

"> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.<
You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been
attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you
missed that one."

(c) Copyright for the Digital Millennium

--0016e640985a1553940463111ba0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

This should be interesating.  I read some of the letters they would send back to copywrite lawyers and they struck me as having a lot of humor, as well as total confidence that the law was on their side.


My favorite reply was the one where they claimed their in house lawyer was recovering from a hangover.


On Feb 16, 2009 2:13 PM, "Ruben Safir" <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> wrote:

BBC NEWS / TECHNOLOGY

Graphics Version | Change to UK Version | BBC Sport Home News Front Page

| Africa | Americas | Asia-Pacific | Europe | Middle East | South Asia |

UK | Business | Health | Science & Environment | Technology |

Entertainment | Also in the news | Video and Audio | Have Your Say |

16:36 GMT, Monday, 16 February 2009

Pirate Bay file-sharing defended

Gottfrid Svartholm Varg, partially obscured, and Peter Sunde



The founders of a website which carries links to copies of music, films

and TV programmes have gone on trial in Sweden on charges of copyright

theft.



The Pirate Bay is the world's most high-profile file-sharing site and is

being taken to court by media firms including Sony and Warner Bros.



The men face up to two years in prison and a fine of $143,500, if

convicted.



"File-sharing services can be used both legally and illegally," defence

lawyer Per Samuelsson said.



Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi and Carl

Lundstorm have portrayed themselves as digital libertarians and say that

they cannot be prosecuted for copyright theft because none of the

content is hosted on their computer servers.



The men are accused of "promoting other people's infringements of

copyright laws", according to charges filed by senior public prosecutor

Haakan Roswall.



Representatives of the movie, music and video games industry are seeking

about 115 million kronor (10.6 million euros) in damages and interest

for losses incurred from tens of millions of illegal downloads

facilitated by the site.



FROM THE BBC WORLD SERVICE

More from BBC World Service



"It is legal to offer a service that can be used in both a legal and

illegal way, according to Swedish law," Mr Samuelsson said at the

opening of the trial, which is expected to last three weeks.



He said the site "can be compared to making cars that can be driven

faster than the speed limit".



Monique Wadsted, a lawyer representing media firms, including Warner

Bros and MGM, involved in the case said: "It's not a political trial,

it's not a trial about shutting down a people's library, and it's not a

trial that wants to prohibit file-sharing as a technique.





"It's not a political trial"



Monique Wadsted, lawyer





"It's a trial that regards four individuals that have conducted a big

commercial business making money out of others' file-sharing works,

copyright-protected movies, hit music, popular computer games, etc."



The Pirate Bay, which was founded in 2003, directs people to "torrent"

links, which allow file-sharing program BitTorrent to download and

upload files among potentially millions of users.



"They have already failed to take down the site once. Let them fail

again"

Gottfrid Warg



Swedish police raided the company's offices several times and seized

nearly 200 servers in 2006, temporarily closing the site. But it

re-opened a few days later with servers hosted in different countries.



Mr Warg, in a webcast on Sunday, said: "What are they going to do about

it? They have already failed to take down the site once. Let them fail

again.



"It has a life without us."



John Kennedy, chairman of the International Federation of the

Phonographic Industries, representing 1,400 member record companies

worldwide, said: "The Pirate Bay has hurt creators of many different

kinds of works, from music to film, from books to TV programmes. It has

been particularly harmful in distributing copyrighted works prior to

their official release.



"This damages sales of music at the most important time of their

lifecycle."



Mr Kennedy said the four men had "made substantial amounts of money"

from the site, "despite their claim to be only interested in spreading

culture for free".



On Sunday, Mr Sunde said: "It does not matter if they require several

million (kronor) or one billion. We are not rich and have no money to

pay."

--

http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff

http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software



So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world  - RI Safir 1998



http://fairuse.nylxs.com  DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002



"Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"



"The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society."



"> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.<

You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt.  I guess you missed that one."



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  1. 2009-02-01 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects
  2. 2009-02-01 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects
  3. 2009-02-01 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects
  4. 2009-02-01 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects
  5. 2009-02-01 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects
  6. 2009-02-01 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects
  7. 2009-02-03 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects
  8. 2009-02-04 Amy Coleman <acoleman-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects
  9. 2009-02-04 Amy Coleman <acoleman-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects
  10. 2009-02-05 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects
  11. 2009-02-05 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] funny onion news
  12. 2009-02-05 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [announcements-at-a-teamgroup.com: 7th Annual 2009 High Performance Linux on Wall Street]
  13. 2009-02-06 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] MYSQL falling apart
  14. 2009-02-08 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] ubuntu wifi
  15. 2009-02-09 From: "Tameek" <tameek-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] ubuntu wifi
  16. 2009-02-09 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Outliner Project
  17. 2009-02-09 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] ubuntu wifi
  18. 2009-02-09 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] ubuntu wifi
  19. 2009-02-09 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] ubuntu wifi
  20. 2009-02-09 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] best line I've read
  21. 2009-02-09 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] best line I've read
  22. 2009-02-09 Ron Guerin <ron-at-vnetworx.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] best line I've read
  23. 2009-02-09 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] best line I've read
  24. 2009-02-09 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] best line I've read
  25. 2009-02-09 Michael L Richardson <mlr52-at-michaellrichardson.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] best line I've read
  26. 2009-02-11 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [nyc-at-workatjelly.com: Jelly in Brooklyn this Friday 2/13]
  27. 2009-02-11 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Re: Transit cuts: seeing is believing
  28. 2009-02-11 einker <eminker-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] best line I've read
  29. 2009-02-11 Michael L Richardson <mlr52-at-michaellrichardson.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] best line I've read
  30. 2009-02-11 Elfen Magix <elfen_magix-at-yahoo.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] A Rare Time To Come...
  31. 2009-02-12 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] internet connection
  32. 2009-02-12 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] internet connection
  33. 2009-02-15 Michael L Richardson <mlr52-at-michaellrichardson.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Debian
  34. 2009-02-15 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Debian
  35. 2009-02-15 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] virus security is finally getting notice
  36. 2009-02-15 Michael L Richardson <mlr52-at-michaellrichardson.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Debian
  37. 2009-02-15 Michael L Richardson <mlr52-at-mycouponmagic.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] virus security is finally getting notice
  38. 2009-02-15 Kevin Mark <kevin.mark-at-verizon.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Debian
  39. 2009-02-15 Kevin Mark <kevin.mark-at-verizon.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] virus security is finally getting notice
  40. 2009-02-15 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] virus security is finally getting notice
  41. 2009-02-15 Michael L Richardson <mlr52-at-michaellrichardson.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] virus security is finally getting notice
  42. 2009-02-16 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] DRM not quite dead yet
  43. 2009-02-16 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Copyright Wars continue
  44. 2009-02-16 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Copyright Wars continue
  45. 2009-02-16 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] weird project spec
  46. 2009-02-16 Elfen Magix <elfen_magix-at-yahoo.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] weird project spec
  47. 2009-02-16 swd <sderrick-at-optonline.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] weird project spec
  48. 2009-02-17 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] HP Linux support
  49. 2009-02-17 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Copyright Wars continue
  50. 2009-02-17 Michael L Richardson <mlr52-at-michaellrichardson.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] HP Linux support
  51. 2009-02-18 Ron Guerin <ron-at-vnetworx.net> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [Fwd: [nylug-announce] TOMORROW! NYLUG Feb 18 -at- 6:30 PM Brian Gupta
  52. 2009-02-18 Ron Guerin <ron-at-vnetworx.net> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Sunny Dubey's Nov 2008 Linux DJ presentation now available to stream/download
  53. 2009-02-18 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Sunny Dubey's Nov 2008 Linux DJ presentation
  54. 2009-02-19 Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] HP Linux support
  55. 2009-02-19 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Jobs
  56. 2009-02-19 Ron Guerin <ron-at-vnetworx.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Sunny Dubey's Nov 2008 Linux DJ presentation
  57. 2009-02-19 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Sunny Dubey's Nov 2008 Linux DJ presentation
  58. 2009-02-20 Amy Coleman <acoleman-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects
  59. 2009-02-20 Amy Coleman <acoleman-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] internet connection
  60. 2009-02-20 Amy Coleman <acoleman-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] weird project spec
  61. 2009-02-20 Amy Coleman <acoleman-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] HP Linux support
  62. 2009-02-20 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] weird project spec
  63. 2009-02-21 email <redpill-at-rcn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] new email
  64. 2009-02-21 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] new email
  65. 2009-02-21 From: "Beau Gould" <bg-at-capitalmarketsp.com> RE: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] new email
  66. 2009-02-21 Michael L Richardson <mlr52-at-michaellrichardson.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [Fwd: [nylug-announce] Russ Nelson's OpenStreetmap mapping party
  67. 2009-02-22 email <redpill-at-rcn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] new email
  68. 2009-02-23 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  69. 2009-02-23 Elfen Magix <elfen_magix-at-yahoo.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  70. 2009-02-23 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  71. 2009-02-23 Amy Coleman <acoleman-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] weird project spec
  72. 2009-02-23 Amy Coleman <acoleman-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] new email
  73. 2009-02-24 redpill <redpill-at-rcn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  74. 2009-02-24 Michael L Richardson <mlr52-at-michaellrichardson.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  75. 2009-02-24 Michael L Richardson <mlr52-at-mycouponmagic.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [Fwd: Mandriva Linux Powerpack 2009 available at 50% discount !]
  76. 2009-02-24 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [Fwd: Jelly in Brooklyn this Friday 2/27]
  77. 2009-02-25 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Iraqi Views on US Politics
  78. 2009-02-25 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Finances
  79. 2009-02-25 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest Sunday
  80. 2009-02-25 From: "Tameek" <tameek-at-gmail.com> R: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Finances
  81. 2009-02-25 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Re: [nylug-talk] Installfest Sunday
  82. 2009-02-25 redpill <redpill-at-rcn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  83. 2009-02-25 Amy Coleman <acoleman-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  84. 2009-02-25 mlr52-at-michaellrichardson.com RE: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Finances
  85. 2009-02-25 redpill <redpill-at-rcn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  86. 2009-02-25 Amy Coleman <acoleman-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  87. 2009-02-25 Amy Coleman <acoleman-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] IRC as a way to hold meetings
  88. 2009-02-25 Ron Guerin <ron-at-vnetworx.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  89. 2009-02-26 Kevin Mark <kevin.mark-at-verizon.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Finances
  90. 2009-02-26 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Finances
  91. 2009-02-26 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: R: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Finances
  92. 2009-02-26 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Finances
  93. 2009-02-26 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  94. 2009-02-26 Robert Menes <viewtiful.icchan-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  95. 2009-02-27 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] MS Verses GNU is heating up
  96. 2009-02-27 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] 24 percent increase in GNU Sales not satisfying Novell in the recession
  97. 2009-02-27 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] MS/GNU Legal Battle prelude part II
  98. 2009-02-27 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  99. 2009-02-27 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest Sunday
  100. 2009-02-27 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] is this mayor NUTS?
  101. 2009-02-27 Robert Menes <viewtiful.icchan-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] is this mayor NUTS?
  102. 2009-02-27 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] is this mayor NUTS?
  103. 2009-02-27 mlr52-at-michaellrichardson.com Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest Sunday
  104. 2009-02-27 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] OLPC
  105. 2009-02-27 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [Fwd: Re: [linux-elitists] FAT is the new GIF?]
  106. 2009-02-27 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [Fwd: Re: [linux-elitists] FAT is the new GIF?]
  107. 2009-02-27 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [Fwd: Re: [linux-elitists] FAT is the new GIF?]
  108. 2009-02-27 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [Fwd: Re: [linux-elitists] FAT is the new GIF?]
  109. 2009-02-27 From: "Paul Robert Marino" <prmarino1-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest Sunday
  110. 2009-02-27 Elfen Magix <elfen_magix-at-yahoo.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] is this mayor NUTS?
  111. 2009-02-27 redpill <redpill-at-rcn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  112. 2009-02-27 Ron Guerin <ron-at-vnetworx.net> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest Sunday
  113. 2009-02-27 Amy Coleman <acoleman-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  114. 2009-02-27 Amy Coleman <acoleman-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest and hacking date
  115. 2009-02-28 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [Fwd: Update Apache2.0 configuration]
  116. 2009-02-28 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Installfest Sunday
  117. 2009-02-28 Ronny Abraham <ronny.coder-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] is this mayor NUTS?

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