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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 clifyt · · Score: 2, Troll

    Thank you. I'm glad someone understands.

    The OpenSource rhetoric goes something like this: There is something that someone else spent years and millions of $$$s creating it. Why shouldn't we have it for free.

    Ok, so they argue, we ONLY want it to decode the data. Well if that is possible, then the geeks will be screaming that now we want to ENCODE as well. If ya'll can do it for free, what does Dolby have to offer anyone?

    clif