From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 28 16:29:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17282 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:29:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17271 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:29:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.41.90]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA25418; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:04:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36B0D0F8.260F9618@seattleu.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:04:56 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kojak CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This is outrageous References: <36AF63DE.167EB0E7@i.am> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kojak wrote: > > This made me so angry, please spare a moment to check out > this article:- > > http://www.mp3.com/news/159.html The original message was meant to be serious, but from the look of the patents, that original message won't have any weight. The patents describe a method of distributing digital streams of audio or video (or whatever), which are not the same as MP3s, or any other compressed file. Furthermore, you have to be selling digital streams in order to come close to violating the patents, I think. (No patent expert am I.) -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message