Ross Levis wrote:
>
> Mark Taylor wrote:
>
> > I like this quote:
> >
> > --start quote---
> > According to Brandenburg, the ISO asked Fraunhofer to develop sample
> > encoding and decoding software as a tool for industry to learn how to
> > use MP3. The source code -- the underlying instructions -- for these
> > programs was carelessly placed on an insecure university server, where
> > it was later obtained by a hacker in Amsterdam known as
> > SoloH. (Brandenburg says the download was not authorized but also not
> > illegal.) Using SoloH's source code, coders across Europe and the
> > United States wrote and gave away MP3 software of their own, creating
> > -- without the participation of the music industry -- the base for
> > today's explosion of online music.
> > --end quote---
>
> I thought the ISO source code was freely available from Fraunhofer's ftp
> site well before SoloH released his encoder, but then it was a few years
> ago now and time maybe playing tricks.
The ISO sources are avaliable at
ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/MPEG/audio/mpeg2/software/technical_report/dist10.tar.gz
from year 1997 on and will probably stay there for a while.
david balazic
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