http://www.advogato.org/person/havardk/ Advogato blog for havardk en-us mod_virgule Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:02:21 GMT Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:31:23 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/havardk/diary.html?start=0 http://www.advogato.org/person/havardk/diary.html?start=0 <b>MP3 patent fees</b> <p> I'm a bit surprised about the recent fuzz about licensing fees for mp3 decoders. The relevant <a href="http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/index.html" >page</a> at mp3licensing.com has not had any relevant changes for more than a year, so this is not news. There has been no other indication that the patent holders <a href="http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/mp3-licensing.html" >original</a> attitude against "freeware" decoders has changed, as far as I can tell. In my opinion, the only thing they would accomplish by trying to enforce fees on free decoders would be a PR disaster.