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Re:Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit to... by zdw on Friday February 25, 2011 @10:22PM (#2264771)
Link in article didn't work for me, this one does:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/random-defen...

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Re:Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit to... by kgermino on Friday February 25, 2011 @11:26PM (#2264871)
This isn't about a defendant that "outfought" a P2P attorney, this is about a company that tried to mass-sue on the cheap and got a judge that saw right through it. There was a number of problems with the plaintiffs case, the civilian defendant just reminded the judge of what he wanted to do in the first place.
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Re:Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit to... by Natsu on Saturday February 26, 2011 @12:42AM (#2264967)
That may be true, but there have been a number of these that went through unopposed and were therefore granted. I've heard lawyers say that you can get away with an awful lot of things if nobody objects.
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Re:Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit to... by geuis on Friday February 25, 2011 @10:36PM (#2264795)
Christ, will these websites please STOP doing this crazy hash bang shit? Its absolutely horrible from a user's perspective. You break the the URL. I don't care if Google said they can crawl it or not, they aren't your primary responsibility. Ever since the Gawker sites switched over to that awful new site design, it has not only been difficult to navigate (UI design problem, not hash bang), but simple things like the back button only work about 50% of the time.

I'll put an offer out to the community. If you guys can provide me with a list of urls for sites that use the hash-bang, and that have normal url equivalents, I'll write an extension, site, or javascript bookmarklet that auto-corrects these.

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Re:Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit to... by shii on Friday February 25, 2011 @11:22PM (#2264862)
Where/why/when did this trend start? I saw it first on Twitter and Facebook, then the Gawker family of sites, and now it's spreading to other media outlets like Ars here.
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Re:Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit to... by uxp on Saturday February 26, 2011 @12:58AM (#2264990)
First place I noticed it was "New" Twitter. This article was posted on HN a little while after Gawker changed their design which explains why it was implemented and why it shouldn't have to begin with:

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashB...

And it's discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2196160

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Re:Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit to... by Joakal on Friday February 25, 2011 @11:08PM (#2264846)
I removed /#!/ part in URL in OP. Went straight to article.
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Re:Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit to... by zyphlar on Saturday February 26, 2011 @04:39AM (#2265219)
What's awesome here (aside from living in Arizona just like the plaintiff) is that one of the defendants asked the Internet if he should get a lawyer: http://answers.justia.com/question/2010/12/11/i-am-being-sue...

Looks like conventional wisdom gets bucked again?

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