They must be rather dumb if they managed to dothis with several
distributions of the code and then contiunued to make hte mistake with the
AAC code base....
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On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Zia Mazhar wrote:
> > I like this quote:
> >
> > --start quote---
> > According to Brandenburg, the ISO asked Fraunhofer to develop sample
> > encoding and decoding software as a tool for industry to learn how to
> > use MP3. The source code -- the underlying instructions -- for these
> > programs was carelessly placed on an insecure university server, where
> > it was later obtained by a hacker in Amsterdam known as
> > SoloH. (Brandenburg says the download was not authorized but also not
> > illegal.) Using SoloH's source code, coders across Europe and the
> > United States wrote and gave away MP3 software of their own, creating
> > -- without the participation of the music industry -- the base for
> > today's explosion of online music.
> > --end quote---
>
> Wow, is THIS how we all got the ISO MP3 code!? If SoloH didn't hack-in,
> wouldn't there have been LAME???
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