[vorbis] requested new features ?

[Matt and Karin Lawson]

The website is:
     http://www.mp3licensing.com

Basically the deal is that you can stream mp3s for free until the end of the
year but after that, they start charging a royalty with a MINIMUM annual
payment of $15,000.  If you also want to sell downloads, it's 1% of your
sales with another annual minimum fee of $15,000.

Now remember these fees are only for the use of the mp3 technology
itself, it doesn't include the myriad of royalties that are due to the various
record companies, publishers, performing rights organizations, etc..

Realize that this also means that if you want to sell and stream YOUR
OWN MUSIC that you personally wrote, performed, and recorded
in your house, that adds up to $30,000 per year.  You see how
absurd this is?

Ross Levis wrote:

> Where can I find info regarding the MP3 broadcast license changes?
>
> Cheers,
> Ross.
>
> Ralph Giles wrote:
>
> > If it helps any, I have an unofficial todo list at
> > http://snow.ashlu.bc.ca/ogg/todo.html it's a bit biased towards my own
> > interests (mostly from lack of other contributions :) but should give you
> > an idea what's been talked about so far.
> >
> > There is no feature freeze, but we need to get a 1.0 release out before
> > the mp3 broadcast-licensing changing at the end of the year. Jack is, I
> > understand, exerting some influence on what goes in. Grapevine has it that
> > we will get low bitrate modes and joint stereo/surround support for 1.0.
> > Also the stream-description metadata if it's ready (unlikely). Nothing
> > else has been settled upon, afaik.
> >
> > Oh, and and as much streaming support as possible. :)
> >
> >  -r
> >
> > --
> > giles at ashlu.bc.ca
> >
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