My comments - Why does everyone go for the jugular? Why not ask Sony to provide it's improvements to the lame community? Lame can only benefit from having a number of professional programmers contribute to the effort.
Everyone wins - - Sony gets to look like a good citizen, and they get the benefits of lame - The lame community benefits from a better product, and lame gets great exposure (Sony's use will be a great endorsement). Also, people are treating Sony as if the corporate management made the decision to use lame. The decision may have been made by an overworked engineer who needed a quick fix. Oh yeah, the engineer may not have had any idea of how he or she was infringing. And, their manager may not have known either. If Sony Doesn't' Do The Right Thing, *then* it's a different ball game. Later, Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronen Mizrahi Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:17 AM To: MP3 encoders development list Subject: Re: [mp3encoder] Sony have violated your IP - please teach them a lesson! You guys just do not get it, do you? A small infringement is enough to have them sued and probably have them want to settle. This is your chance to make them pay for not treating you right. For abusing your software and thinking that they can do whatever they wish with copyrighted material. Their name has been so badly hurt when they tried to protect their own copyrighted materials by using "spyware" that facing a lawsuit now about infringing on someone else's rights is so symbolic and powerful that the media will be all over them. It will make them look so bad they will probably want to settle this as quickly as possible. I am not the one who wrote the original email and I do not think money is the motivation. Freedom should be the motivation, these guys are trying to take away basic freedoms people should have with regard to fair use of music and in the process of doing so they even violate someone else's copyrgihts, this has got to stop. I would love to see them taught a lesson. Do me a favor, call someone from EFF, they will get you a lwayer and will take it from there. All you have to do is one phone call by at least one LAME copyright owner and the rest is history, Sony will learn to respect other people copyrights and not just care about their own! _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [email protected] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
