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+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><!-- Parent-Version: 1.75
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+<title>Why Audio Format Matters
+- GNU Project - Free <span class="removed"><del><strong>as in
Freedom</title></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>Software Foundation</title></em></ins></span>
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/why-audio-format-matters.translist"
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Why Audio Format Matters</h2>
+
+<span class="removed"><del><strong><!-- This document uses XHTML 1.0
Strict, but may be served as -->
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+<!-- Please ensure links are consistent with Apache's MultiView. -->
+<!-- Change include statements to be consistent with the relevant -->
+<!-- language, where necessary. --></strong></del></span>
+
+<h3 class="subtitle">An invitation to audio producers to use Ogg
+Vorbis alongside MP3</h3>
+
+<p>by Karl Fogel</p>
+
+<div class="announcement"><p class="footer"><a
href="http://xiph.org/about/">More information</a> about Xiph.org (the
+organization that created Ogg Vorbis) and the importance of free
+distribution formats <a href="http://xiph.org/about/">is
available</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The Free Software Foundation have also produced <a
href="http://playogg.org">a user-friendly guide to installing Ogg Vorbis
support in Microsoft
+Windows and Apple Mac OS X</a>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>If you produce audio for general distribution, you probably spend
+99.9% of your time thinking about form, content, and production
+quality, and 0.1% thinking about what audio format to distribute your
+recordings in.</p>
+
+<p>And in an ideal world, this would be fine. Audio formats would be
+like the conventions of laying out a book, or like pitches
+and other building-blocks of music: containers of meaning, available
+for anyone to use, free of restrictions. You wouldn't have to worry
+about the consequences of distributing your material in MP3 format,
+any more than you would worry about putting a page number at the top
+of a page, or starting a book with a table of contents.</p>
+
+<p>Unfortunately, that is not the world we live in. MP3 is a patented
+format. What this means is that various companies have
+government-granted monopolies over certain aspects of the MP3
+standard, such that whenever someone creates or listens to an MP3
+file, <em>even with software not written by one of those
+companies</em>, the companies have the right to decide whether or not
+to permit that use of MP3. Typically what they do is demand money, of
+course. But the terms are entirely up to them: they can forbid you
+from using MP3 at all, if they want. If you've been using MP3 files
+and didn't know about this situation, then either a) someone else,
+usually a software maker, has been paying the royalties for you, or b)
+you've been unknowingly infringing on patents, and in theory could be
+sued for it.</p>
+
+<p>The harm here goes deeper than just the danger to you. A software
+patent grants one party the exclusive right to use a certain
+mathematical fact. This right can then be bought and sold, even
+litigated over like a piece of property, and you can never predict
+what a new owner might do with it. This is not just an abstract
+possibility: MP3 patents have been the subject of multiple lawsuits,
+with damages totalling more than a billion dollars.</p>
+
+<p>The most important issue here is not about the fees, it's about the
+freedom to communicate and to develop communications tools.
+Distribution formats such as MP3 are the containers of information
+exchange on the Internet. Imagine for a moment that someone had a
+patent on the modulated vibration of air molecules: you would need a
+license just to hold a conversation or play guitar for an audience.
+Fortunately, our government has long held that old, familiar methods
+of communication, like vibrating air molecules or writing symbols on
+pieces of paper, are not patentable: no one can own them, they are
+free for everyone to use. But until those same liberties are extended
+to newer, less familiar methods (like particular standards for
+representing sounds via digital encoding), we who generate audio
+works must take care what format we use — and
+require our listeners to use.</p>
+
+<h4 class="sec">A way out: Ogg Vorbis format</h4>
+
+<p>Ogg Vorbis is an alternative to MP3. It gets high sound quality,
+can compress down to a smaller size than MP3 while still sounding good
+(thus saving you time and bandwidth costs), and best of all, is
+designed to be completely free of patents.</p>
+
+<p>You won't sacrifice any technical quality by encoding your audio in
+Ogg Vorbis. The files sound fine, and most players know how to play
+them. But you will increase the total number of people who can listen
+to your tracks, and at the same time help the push for patent-free
+standards in distribution formats.</p>
+
+<p>The Ogg Vorbis home page, <a href="http://www.vorbis.com/";
+>www.vorbis.com</a>, has all the information you need to both listen
+to and produce Vorbis-encoded files. The safest thing, for you and
+your listeners, would be to offer Ogg Vorbis files exclusively. But
+since there are still some players that can only handle MP3, and you
+don't want to lose audience, a first step is to offer both Ogg Vorbis
+and MP3, while explaining to your downloaders (perhaps by linking to
+this article) exactly why you support Ogg Vorbis.</p>
+
+<p>And with Ogg Vorbis, you'll even <em>gain</em> some
audience.
+Here's how:</p>
+
+<p>Up till now, the MP3 patent owners have been clever enough not to
+harass individual users with demands for payment. They know that
+would stimulate popular awareness of (and eventually opposition to)
+the patents. Instead, they go after the makers of products that
+implement the MP3 format. The victims of these shakedowns shrug
+wearily and pay up, viewing it as just another cost of doing business,
+which is then passed on invisibly to users. However, not everyone is
+in a position to pay: some of your listeners use free software
+programs to play audio files. Because this software is freely copied
+and downloaded, there is no practical way for either the authors or
+the users to pay a patent fee — that is, to pay for
+the right to use the mathematical facts that underly the MP3 format.
+As a result, these programs cannot legally implement MP3, even though
+the tracks the users want to listen to may themselves be perfectly
+free! Because of this situation, some distributors of the GNU/Linux
+computer operating system — which has millions of
+users worldwide — have been unable to include MP3
+players in their software distributions.</p>
+
+<p>Luckily, you don't have to require such users to engage in civil
+disobedience every time they want to listen to your works. By
+offering Ogg Vorbis, you ensure that no listeners have to get involved
+with a patented distribution format unless they choose to, and that
+your audio works will never be hampered by unforseen licensing
+requirements. Eventually, the growing acceptance of Ogg Vorbis as a
+standard, coupled with increasingly unpredictable behavior by some of
+the MP3 patent holders, may make it impractical to offer MP3 files at
+all. But even before that day comes, Ogg Vorbis remains the only
+portable, royalty-free audio format on the Internet, and it's worth a
+little extra effort to support.</p>
+
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