[IP] Re: The MP3 patent debacle

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Andrew Pam <xanni@glasswings.com.au>
Date: February 25, 2007 3:06:53 AM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: The MP3 patent debacle

On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 02:53 -0500, David Farber wrote:
> As to compression -- you should have the option of getting the extreme
> compression if you want. But if it's  going to cost billions of
> dollars for the license think about putting that money into advancing
> generic capacity instead of just giving Alcatel a lottery ticket.

Or you could use the patent-free OGG Vorbis codec instead:
http://www.vorbis.com/

More and more hardware players support the Vorbis format:
http://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisHardware

If you prefer lossless compression, there is the FLAC format:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/

Regards,
	Andrew
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