I think this might be worth some sort of mini-celebration. I never thought I'd live to see the day.

"the MP3 technology became patent-free in the United States on 16 April 2017 when U.S. Patent 6,009,399, ...administered by Technicolor, expired"

@bob Somehow I thought this had expired a few years ago, but okay...

Maybe I was thinking of the GIF patent.

Yay, one less evil thing to futilely attempt to avoid.