Parker HigginsThe final remaining patent on the MP3 format — "METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING DIGITAL SIGNALS EMPLOYING BIT ALLOCATION USING COMBINATIONS OF DIFFERENT THRESHOLD MODELS TO ACHIEVE DESIRED BIT RATES" — has expired today.
There's a common list out there (compiled 10 years ago) that has two dates wrong and will doom me to well-meaning nerds issuing corrections in my mentions today. So be it; I live to serve.
Darius: Moving Accts, See Bio@xor My eyeball is twitching in solidarity.
Badimir Tootin'@xor I googled to find something to link in a fb post about this and everything I found was that list or was sourced to it oops
@BlueSpaceCanary yeah, it's The List but if you check the priority date of the last two on USPTO or Google they don't match what the list says
@BlueSpaceCanary I think there'd be corrections out there if the patent expirations were, at this point, more than mostly symbolic
Rysiekúr (old account)@xor M-P-FREE!
ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі@xor so can we open source that crap now? please? i personally prefer flacs but it sure would be nice to not feel guilty about having mp3s laying around :)
lexpierce@xor almost: "DIGITAL CODING PROCESS FOR TRANSMISSION OR STORAGE OF ACOUSTICAL SIGNALS BY TRANSFORMING OF SCANNING VALUES INTO SPECTRAL COEFFICIENTS" is this August, and "PROCESS FOR REDUCING DATA IN THE TRANSMISSION AND/OR STORAGE OF DIGITAL SIGNALS FROM SEVERAL INTERDEPENDENT CHANNELS" is this december. But we are getting close! or, use Ogg :D
old hazel@xor and yet mickey mouse remains under copyright for almost 100 years
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