To patch the couple of holes (the rest was good); The royalties only come into play for companies.. They have to pay a certain amount for hardware-based decoders, and software-based encoders.. For instance, a ripper with MP3 encoding built in would have to pay $1 per licence sold, whereas there is no mesurable cost to the consumer (none that they havn't paid already if they have a hardware mp3 player)
Winamp and Sonique are both software decodeers that have to pay no royalty ----- Original Message ----- From: Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 16:40:49 +0100 To: dale ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [MP3 ENCODER] Re: legality > On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 07:03:04 -0800 > dale ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [To the readers of the mp3encoder list: please CC him if you reply to > this mail] > > > Greetings: > > > > I am in a band (in the US) and would like to put some of our > > music up on the Web. One member of our group is a very > > committed geek and he is opposed to the use of mp3 > > because he says it benefits Thomson/Fraunhofer and they > > are big bad meanies or something like that. However, I > > But not as big as the RIAA or Microsoft... :-) > > > have read that mp3 is actually open-source and the use of > > some codecs/encoders such as LAME do not require the > > payment of royalties. I can encode using lame_win32 with > > I'm not aware that someone has to pay royalties for MP3 files. You may > have to pay if you sell en-/decoders (you have to pay for hardware based > ones, and for software based ones you may have to pay if you earn money > with them (but I'm unsure about the last part)), but this doesn't affect > you. > > Have a look at mp3-tech.org, there you should find more information (at > least a link to Thomson). > > > Goldwave, but am not allowed to distribute our material > > unless I can prove to the geek that it won�t enrich the > > aforementioned meanies. > > I assume nobody will buy a hardware player just to listen to only your > music, so because you put your music online as a MP3 you don't change > much (just assume they already have paid royalties by purchasing a > hardware MP3 player for the music of someone else). > > If they use free software decoders and burn your music on a CD, they pay > no royalties to Thomson. > > [comment why ogg isn't suitable snipped] > > Fact is: if you want to make it easy for people to listen to your music, > you have to use MP3. Every other format doesn't has the needed support > (there may be hardware devices which play WMA or ogg, but you have to > search for them). > > Bye, > Alexander. > > -- > Weird enough for government work. > > http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net > GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 > _______________________________________________ > mp3encoder mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder > -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup One click access to the Top Search Engines http://www.exactsearchbar.com/mailcom _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
