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Re:The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been te... by KKKKkkkk1 on Monday May 01, 2017 @10:52PM (#14243603)
But MP3 is what made it possible to share music on the Internet and to play music off of iPod-like music players. Shouldn't the inventors benefit from their work? Don't algorithmicists deserve the same protections that say electrical engineers do?
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Re:The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been te... by bigbugbag on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:29AM (#14245105)
It's not mp3 that made it possible to share music on the internet but people who did not care for the business model of the music industry. By the time ipod were out mp3 was outdated and obsolete for a while but was still the most used format for several reasons (format of choice of the pirates, cheaper to make hardware decoder, lack of success of mp3pro and other proprietary successors, reluctancy to adopt free and open format).
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Re:The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been te... by Symbiote on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:22AM (#14244339)
No. They deserve the same protection as mathematicians.
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Re:The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been te... by dingo_bat on Monday May 01, 2017 @10:55PM (#14243611)
No, apparently all software is created in free time, for hobby purposes. That's why all software should be free, open source and patent-free. Software devs can make an easy living off supporting their software.
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Re:The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been te... by huhtenberg on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:20AM (#14244551)
Sarcasm doesn't do well on HN.
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