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Here we load again
When Don Marti was over here the other day, educating me about all kinds of stuff, I pretended to follow what he was saying about Ogg Vorbis. Then I started filling my brain with facts.
Here's one I didn't know, but do now, thanks to Steve McCannell, writing for O'Reilly:
Another wrench is being thrown into the MP3 mix. Much of the technology underlying the MP3 music format is patented by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. They've smartened up and will start charging royalty fees for decoders, encoders, hardware products, and the distribution of any MP3 file at the end of this year. The fees are not cheap either: up to $5 per unit for an encoder; $.50 per hardware sale; digital download sites will pay 1 percent of the price charged to the listener; and there is a $15,000 minimum licensing fee for every company. By the end of 2001, webcasters will also have to pay a royalty for streaming MP3s.
Ogg Vorbis is, I trust, better. It goes with the grain of the Web (as Dave so nicely puts it), for all of the reasons you'll soon be reading a lot more about.
I think it's gonna rock.
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My $0.00 worth
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Lucky they're not on the tip jar system.
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