Ken Ambrose wrote:
> I don't *believe* so (anyone better-informed, feel free to correct me).
> I seem to recall that the patent-holders for MP3 only ask royalties on
> commercially-produced MP3 players, but they *do* get (IIRC) about
> US$5.00/ea. commercial player (eg. your Rio 500).
The licensing fees for MPEG encoding are completely arbitrary. The
patent holders decide the cost on a case-by-case basis, usually
dependant upon the financial status of the company that they are
ripping off. They tend to only go after comapanies and leave the
individuals alone. However, there was an issue a while back with
bladeenc where Fraunhoffer and Thomas Consumer Electronics tried to
enforce their patents on the individual.
C-Ya,
Kenny
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