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Linked List: April 22, 2007

Sunday, 22 April 2007

HandBrake 0.8.5b1 ★

Unforked update to the open source DVD-to-MPEG4 video converter. Useful for ripping content from DVDs into a format playable on iPods and Apple TV.

Tim O’Reilly on the Amazon-Alexaholic Lawsuit ★

Tim O’Reilly:

In short, I ended up with a lot more sympathy for Amazon’s position than I expected to. If someone decided that they could make a nice business by re-using the content from O’Reilly books in a new, more accessible form, I’d probably be miffed too. I’d be dumb not to jump on the opportunity if I saw signs of uptake, but it would be my call as the copyright holder. And if they used my name in building their service to boot, and refused to stop when I asked them nicely and even offered them money, I might eventually have gotten pretty angry too.