Today I Learned.
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MP3 Freedom Day, April 16, 2017
Get ready to celebrate! The last MP3 patent is about to expire! I think. The Wikipedia article on MP3, as I’m writing this, claims that “MP3 technology will be patent-free in the United…H/T bob@social.freedomebone.net
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Good news, although it would be better news if the world had been able to move over to one of the newer, better, and FAIF codecs...
Oh well...
JanKusanagi at 2017-04-18T18:49:50Z
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In the search for Freedom ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYAc7gB-0A
... you gotta have FAIF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu3VTngm1F0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYAc7gB-0A
... you gotta have FAIF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu3VTngm1F0
A quarter century later MP3 patents have expired. Meanwhile, it's a dinosaur of a codec that has long since been surpassed on a technical basis by Vorbis, and even further by Opus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)
Jason Self at 2017-04-19T00:35:54Z
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Technology may have moved on, but the world hasn't.
Aaron Gibson at 2017-04-19T00:47:03Z
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