Quote from today's Guardian (UK) newspaper: <Quote>"Microsoft was yesterday fined a record $1.52bn (£777m) for infringing a digital music patent which could throw into doubt the future of the digital music industry.
A San Diego court ruled that the software giant has infringed patents, owned by Franco-American technology firm Alcatel-Lucent, which cover the conversion of audio tracks into the popular MP3 file format which is used by hundreds of companies and millions of music listeners." </Quote> I'm sure that M$ will somehow manage to get out of this but it just goes to emphasise that even mp3, which most people would assume is a freely usable format, is in fact not. Makes truly free codec schemes like FLAC seem even more crucial to have around. davep -- davep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ davep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=61 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33020
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