[LAU] Pipe not working - or is it lame or oggdec
Simon Wise
simonzwise at gmail.com
Tue May 3 14:05:15 UTC 2011
On 02/05/11 22:53, Gwenhwyfaer wrote:
> On 02/05/2011, Cedric Roux<sed at free.fr> wrote:
>> I don't want to hear about your journey into the world of piracy.
>
> Yes, because nobody *ever* makes MP3s of their own CD collection.
>
> (People do say some spectacularly inane things whilst atop a hobby
> horse. Maybe it's the uncomfortable position of the splinters?)
I think the point is not who owns the content, but who owns the mp3 format -
have you paid them for the right to encode into 'their' mp3? Some claim you
must, as they claim to own patents on parts of the process of such encoding.
Some jurisdictions support this claim, others don't.
Simon
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