[ale] The world just got screwed....

[jcphil at mindspring.com (Jim)]

We always knew it was coming. I started enoding in ogg some time back. It's as 
good or better than MP3 and it keeps getting better. It will be interesting 
to see how long it takes for more ogg files to appear on the Gnutella 
network.

On Tuesday 27 August 2002 04:33 pm, Mike Lockhart wrote:
> If anyone hasn't already seen it, immediately read this article:
>
> "New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder"
> http://slashdot.org/articles/02/08/27/1626241.shtml?tid=155
>
> Maybe this is the conspiracy theorist coming out in me, but I have a
> funny feeling that RIAA had a lot to do with this.  Redhat has already
> removed ALL mp3 players/encoders from the Rawhide tree.
>
> On the upside, this will be a great boost for the Ogg format.


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