Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake
Onno@Willem.Alexanderschool.nl (Onno) writes:
> At 09:09 PM 12/25/99 -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> >On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 11:14:28PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> >> > I think the right solution is selecting a country with good connectivity
> >> > and less stupid laws. What about canada?
> >>
> >> pandora is already in a perfect location...
> >
> >Thought we can't upload mp3 encoders to pandora? Or is that just because
> >some mirrors couldn't handle it?
>
> Why not? Here in the Netherlands mp3's and mp3 encoders are not
> illigal.
I think it's more a problem with patents and copyright and stuff like
that. Virtually all MP3 encoders have a bit of code from the
reference encoder (written by the people Fraunhofer Institute), and
the license is quite restrictive as I'm told.
> BTW I can't think of any software that would be illigal here.
Any kind of software violating a copyright...
Roland.
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Roland Mas
S'agirait pas d'atteindre la sublime transcendance du supramental sans
se bouger le fion un minimum... -- in Sri Raoul le petit yogi (Gaudelette)
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