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May 1, 2017 05:47 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QrNXot-DvhY/mp3-put-out-to-pasture.html
MP3 put out to pasture
It's the end of an era, sort of: Fraunhofer IIS, the developers of the MP3 audio compression format, announced that they are ceasing their licensing program. In a blog post, spokesman Matthias Rose says that it's had a good 20-year run and is obsolete. But it's also true that the decoding patents expired last year, and the last encoding patents are soon to follow. So there's not much hope of selling any licenses in any case.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QrNXot-DvhY/mp3-put-out-to-pasture.html
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