[ale] Linux Mint Hacked

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 02/22/16 11:28, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> Meh.  Maybe law...just law that no one pays attention to.  Almost every distro has repo that can be enabled to add this in, and then there is VLC player. 
> 
> Allen B.
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
> 
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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of DJ-Pfulio [DJPfulio at jdpfu.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 10:14 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Linux Mint Hacked
> 
> MP3 audio:
>  US Patent #: 5,579,430
>  US Patent #: 6,185,539
>  US Patent #: 6,009,399
>  US Patent #: 5,924,060
>  US Patent #: 5,703,999
> 
> Last one expires Expires: December 30, 2017 - not that much longer to
> wait. http://mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html
> 
> "Gray areas?" We can disagree about patents and the use of them, but
> today, this is the law.
> 
> So - only use Opus instead for audio (Opus is "better" than Ogg, AAC,
> MP3 at the same bitrate).  But many HW players won't support it, so be
> certain to choose that hardware carefully. Native Opus support exists in
> Android, but there were/are reported issues, like having to use the .ogg
> extension and not being able to read any tags.
> 
> 
> On 02/22/16 10:37, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
>> What laws?  Some gray area video/audio codecs, or something else?
>> Allen B.
>> --
>> Allen Beddingfield
>> Systems Engineer
>> The University of Alabama
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of DJ-Pfulio [DJPfulio at jdpfu.com]
>> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 9:33 AM
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Linux Mint Hacked
>>
>> On 02/22/16 09:59, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>>> I’m kind of surprised no one has mentioned it on the list this morning.
>>>
>>> http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I thought Keith posted here about it yesterday.  Plus, the Mint
>> distribution violates some US laws, so ...
>>