Fraunhoefer's got its intellectual works perfectly intact. That would, incidentally, be the code it produced. And the LAME team basically said "Screw you, Fraunhoefer, we can make MP3's without using your precious 'intellectual works'" and went and wrote their own.
MP3 was an invention about math and science, not about code. People had to figure out how human audio perception works, and figure out how to mathematically transform audio signals in a way that reduced their information content without altering how they would be perceived by humans. That required rare expertise and a lot of investigation and experimentation. The coding was much easier. MP3 is not code, it's technology that had to be invented before it could be coded. The purpose of patents is to reward inventors.
I'm not sure about the dates, but I'm under the impression that the precursors to the Internet date back to the 1960s, the Internet itself (IPv4, TCP, UDP) appeared in about 1980, and Unix didn't support Internet protocols until the early 80s.
I could be mistaken about this. I personally didn't know the Internet existed until 1989. Is there anyone here who remembers back far enough?
TVs have a slightly different gamma than monitors, so video images tend to look duller on computer monitors unless this is compensated for;
Are you sure? When we researched gamma issues for the PNG Gamma Tutorial, we learned that almost all CRTs have the same gamma characteristic. Perhaps the dullness you see is caused by computer monitors being less bright than TVs.
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MP3 was an invention about math and science, not about code. People had to figure out how human audio perception works, and figure out how to mathematically transform audio signals in a way that reduced their information content without altering how they would be perceived by humans. That required rare expertise and a lot of investigation and experimentation. The coding was much easier. MP3 is not code, it's technology that had to be invented before it could be coded. The purpose of patents is to reward inventors.
AMC
I'm not sure about the dates, but I'm under the impression that the precursors to the Internet date back to the 1960s, the Internet itself (IPv4, TCP, UDP) appeared in about 1980, and Unix didn't support Internet protocols until the early 80s.
I could be mistaken about this. I personally didn't know the Internet existed until 1989. Is there anyone here who remembers back far enough?
AMC
Are you sure? When we researched gamma issues for the PNG Gamma Tutorial, we learned that almost all CRTs have the same gamma characteristic. Perhaps the dullness you see is caused by computer monitors being less bright than TVs.
AMC