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Alcatel/Lucent MP3 Victory
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For those of you who had not heard, Alcatel/Lucent just scored a billion dollar victory against M$ for providing an MP3 encoder, even though M$ was licensing the codec from Franuhoffer. Armed with this victory, Alcatel will be going after others; Apple will presumably be a prime target. Did I miss the thread on this subject?
(Last edited by Big Mac; Feb 25, 2007 at 10:31 AM.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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And that is why I got a job offer from a patent law firm just yesterday. $_$
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Saw it in this morning's newspaper. At least iTunes uses AAC for the store, and Apple could afford the cost if it comes to that.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac 
M$ was licensing the codec from Franuhoffer
Ouch, that hurts. They are called Fraunhofer.
Fraunhofer IIS, THOMSON and Bell Labs (now Alcatel) developed mp3 together, so they should have sorted out together who and how they will license the development. And I'm pretty sure they did that and Fraunhofer IIS and THOMSON were rightfully licensing mp3 to Microsoft and Apple.
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That's stupid. What next, a billion trillion dollar lawsuit about .jpgs?
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