Bob MottramApr 17, 2017
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"

Show threadBenjamin Sonntag-King 🐙

@bob couldn't agree more!
I wrote my own encoder (with an Internet friend) back in the 90's because of that :/ The encoder sucked but at least was free :D

Now let's use the wonderful Lame library freely at last everyone \o/

Apr 18, 2017 at 5:34amWeb