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Dolby Tells NetBSD Project: Don't Decode AC3

Posted by timothy on from the snappy-letterhead dept.

Mycroft writes: "There's a new entrant into the open source DVD legal battle: Dolby Laboratories. The NetBSD Project received this letter demanding that links to the open source ac3dec package be removed. What's next?" Probably what's next are yet more letters sent to every other project which enables decoding of content on platforms unsupported by the format licensors. Remember, you don't buy anything anymore -- you license it.

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  1. Re:Hate to be the bearer of bad news... by Pope+Slackman · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    If ya'll can do it for free, what does Dolby have to offer anyone?

    Nothing.
    So fucking what. Corporations have no inherent right to exist.
    If JoeBob Hacker can code up a compatible format, good for him.

    Saying noone should have the right to code an AC3 CODEC is like saying Samba should be banned because it replaces NT SMB servers, or Linux should be banned because it can replace Solaris.

    It's not about "open source" or "free software" it's about my freedom to code any goddamned thing I want.

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