On Mon, 2 May 2005, Allen wrote:
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 02:20:57PM +0100, Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Monday 02 May 2005 12:25, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Do I understand correctly that it is not legal in the US for SuSE users to listen to mp3, but it is for european users?
Do you have more info on this (a link for further reading, perhaps)? I think SuSE should have told us Europeans buyers why mp3 did not work any longer, and how we could solve it. A product that sells worldwide should give this kind of info in an easy to find place (like the printed book). Multimedia is announced in the box.
It's because the process of encoding and decoding mp3's are covered by software patents. In the US these are enforcable, whilst they are not (theoretically) in the EU.
This is correct. People use MP3s all the time and most probably don't realise how strict the thing is. It's not free softyware, and in fact, you're not even allowed to use it unless it's for research purposes only.
I research my CD collection ;)
Now, as it has been said SUSE 9.3 has a fix to allow MP3 playback and I think they should at least be given some credit for this as RedHat has had no MP3 support for a long time, and they don't give you an update which allows you to use MP3s again, you have to install everything by hand in redhat and generally take a lot of time.
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