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xroche on May 3, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The licensing program for MP3-related patents has ...

> will mean that everyone gets to use the newest and greatest algorithms

There are no such newest and greatest algorithms that are private and covered by patents. This is an illusion.

Nomentatus on May 3, 2017 [–]

It's not just a matter of encryption or compression; there are always better and worse ways of doing things. We have seen large advances in the past there and elsewhere, you're predicting progress won't happen again - a bad bet.

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