Hello everyone,
Now that mp3 technology is about to be killed off thanks to Digital Rights Management and various lawsuits, perhaps it is time that the e-commerce world looks to a new way of supplying music. A reasonably new audio format called Ogg Vorbis is very similar to mp3, with one key difference.
Ogg Vorbis (hereafter OV) is different from other formats because it is completely free, open, and unpatented. It is made with open source codecs and decoders, and therefore (unlike mp3) there are no liscencing fees for distributing, selling, or streaming media.
I put it to the users of this forum to try OV (and Open Source in general) and see for yourself. Personally, I believe that it's lack of fees would make it perfect for an iTunes or Napster-like company to distribute or sell music at a low cost. What's more, artists could share music with their fans for free, without liscencing quarrels.
For more info on what i've mentioned visit:
http://www.vorbis.com/
What do my fellow forum users think?
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Dave.