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Hold on to your iPods, because we have some news.
Rather, the developers of the MP3 do -- they have announced that the music format is dead. But just because they said that, is it actually true? Perhaps not.
In IT Blogwatch, we listen to some music.
So what is going on? Rhett Jones has the news:
The developer of the [MP3] announced this week that it has officially terminated its licensing program...The actual ownership history of the various patent rights involved in MP3 technology is complicated...But the Fraunhofer Institute has claimed the right to license certain MP3 patents to software developers who want to “distribute and/or sell decoders and/or encoders” for it.
But why is this important? JR Torres has some background on the MP3:
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