On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 11:06:31 AM +0100, jdd (jdd@dodin.org) wrote:
the rising of more and more web sites like myspace or youtube that spreads all over the world music and videos, on a completely illegal maner, it's right, makes it very difficult now to ask for mp3 privacy.
No. Why do you say so? How music and video (="content") are spread and licensed has _nothing_ to do with how the *software* to play them is distributed and licensed. In both ways. If all MP3 and MP4 codecs, algorithms, implementations, became GPL tomorrow it would still be illegal to upload some Beatles album on a public server for everybody to download. Regardless of the encoding format. If all Beatles albums became public domain tomorrow and were put in MP3 format on a public server for everybody to download, it would still be illegal for OpenSuse or any other Free SW distribution made with the same criteria to be shipped and distributed with a fylly working MP3 decoder.
Not than this can change the Novells position, but if the above web sites are not sued and closed very soon (and I don't see this likely to happen), the mp3 contenders will have a very difficult position.
No again. This is like saying that, if an artist doesn't want to paid for his or her music, this puts the makers of DVD players in a very difficult position. These are two completely separate issues. Ciao, Marco -- The right way to make everybody love Free Standards and Free Software: http://digifreedom.net/node/73 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org