we are on the good side of the force;-) it is a german company, not an american one... plus, we make enough money already with mp3 already, we don't have to sue anyone. but actually thompson is the company which gives out the licenses. iis just gets a percentage.
translation: Subject: Filename extensions for Layer3:.mp3 Hello, according to a huge ammount of opinions in our poll: The extension for ISO MPEG Audio Layer 3 is.mp3. In other words, we should watch upcoming WWW-pages, shareware, demos etc., for them not to use.bit-extensions. There is a reason, believe me:-) Juergen Zeller
you are missing the whole point: microsoft was sued guilty because they had a phrase like "all your content belongs to us" in their license agreement. if you want to create a homepage at them, you are losing all your rights on your content. so the judge argued, "this is m$ content, so this is m$ responsibility what it is, so this is m$ fault."
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;-) it is a german company, not an american one... plus, we make enough money already with mp3 already, we don't have to sue anyone.
we are on the good side of the force
but actually thompson is the company which gives out the licenses. iis just gets a percentage.
the official birthday for mp3 is july 14th, 1995, at 12:29: gmt+2.m p3/index_d.html
.mp3 .mp3. In other words, we should watch upcoming WWW-pages, shareware, demos etc., for them not to use .bit-extensions. There is a reason, believe me :-)
at this time the fraunhofer institute for integrated circuits released the following (internal) email:
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/pub_rel/presse/2005/
translation:
Subject: Filename extensions for Layer3:
Hello,
according to a huge ammount of opinions in our poll: The extension for ISO MPEG Audio Layer 3 is
Juergen Zeller
yes, it is true.
;-)
mp3 is a patended format.
BUUUT, this patent only applies to hardware implementations, like cell-phones, dvd-players, ipods and other portable mp3-players.
it is as low as 0.75$ per unit. which is not very much compared to the >300$ you have to spend on an ipod.
software implementations are completely free.
and why should thompson sue? right now, they are making a SHITLOAD of money through it.
you are missing the whole point: microsoft was sued guilty because they had a phrase like "all your content belongs to us" in their license agreement.
if you want to create a homepage at them, you are losing all your rights on your content. so the judge argued, "this is m$ content, so this is m$ responsibility what it is, so this is m$ fault."