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SanDisk MP3 Players Seized in MP3 Licence Dispute

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lawyers-on-speed-dial dept.

MrSteveSD writes "According to the BBC, German officials have seized Sandisk's MP3 players at the IFA show in Berlin. The Italian company Sisvel claims that Sandisk has refused to pay license fees for the MP3 codec. Sisvel President Roberto Dini has said that Sandisk could get an edge over competitors by not paying the fees. How much are proprietary format licensing fees pushing up the cost of consumer goods?"

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  1. it isn't open or closed it is patents by mAIsE · · Score: -1, Troll

    If Apple based everything they did on ogg and a company that has patents that ogg violates could then sue the pants off of apple. Patents are probably a very good reason to keep things closed so even if they a company is violating a patent no one knows and they can do their buisness.

  2. mp3 sucks. by eddy · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's called Ogg Vorbis, is superior in quality to mp3, encodes faster, use a sane tagging system, and I'm eagerly awaiting an non-mp3 vorbis-player. Would be fucking HARDCORE.

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  3. fi5rst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    800 w/512 Megs 0f file was opened