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Re: The MP3 patent debacle
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:53:25 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Bob Frankston <Bob19-0501 () bobf frankston com> Date: February 24, 2007 9:39:02 PM EST To: "'David Wagner'" <daw () cs berkeley edu> Cc: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: RE: [IP] The MP3 patent debacle You won't hear the problem as long as you stay within spec and don't repurpose (or remix) the music. As to compression -- you should have theoption of getting the extreme compression if you want. But if it's going to
cost billions of dollars for the license think about putting that money into advancing generic capacity instead of just giving Alcatel a lottery ticket. Perhaps I'm also annoyed because that money helps preserve theillusion that the legacy telecom notion of transporting bits at a profit is
a real business rather than a way to assure scarcity. -----Original Message----- From: David Wagner [mailto:daw () cs berkeley edu] Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 15:12 To: Bob19-0501 () bobf frankston com Subject: [IP] The MP3 patent debacle In article <F626115F-68E9-4BC9-9003-05C59E90D310 () farber net> you write:
IANAL but I wouldve thought that MP3 had to describe something but people use MP3 as a synonym for digital music. Its real value is in extreme compression the kind that seemed necessary when 2400bps was considered a high speed connection. Today we have the tragedy of continuing of paying for the use of a brand that is not directly associated with the value of the compression scheme it stands for and that scheme itself distorts the music.
I disagree. If compression is no longer necessary, then how were you thinking thatI would store all of my albums on my iPod nano? Rest assured that I have
far more music than I can store uncompressed on a portable music device.As for the distortion, I can't tell the difference, so why should I care?
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