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From: rsiddharth
Subject: www/philosophy free-digital-society.html
Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 00:54:54 -0400 (EDT)

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     rsiddharth <rsd>        17/05/06 00:54:54

Modified files:
        philosophy     : free-digital-society.html 

Log message:
        [RT#1211204] Add MP3 patent expiration footnote.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-digital-society.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.22&r2=1.23

Patches:
Index: free-digital-society.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/free-digital-society.html,v
retrieving revision 1.22
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -b -r1.22 -r1.23
--- free-digital-society.html   15 Dec 2014 10:51:03 -0000      1.22
+++ free-digital-society.html   6 May 2017 04:54:53 -0000       1.23
@@ -240,18 +240,20 @@
 keep up and make free software to play those files; so it has almost
 the same effect as being secret.</p>
 
-<p>Then there are the patented formats, such as MP3 for audio. It's bad
-to distribute audio in MP3 format. There is free software to handle MP3
-format, to play it and to generate it, but because it's patented in many
+<p>Then there are the patented formats, such as
+MP3<a href="#f1"><sup>1</sup></a> for audio. It's bad to distribute
+audio in MP3 format. There is free software to handle MP3 format, to
+play it and to generate it, but because it's patented in many
 countries, many distributors of free software don't dare include those
 programs; so if they distribute the GNU+Linux system, their system 
-doesn't include a player for MP3. As a result if anyone distributes some 
-music in MP3, that's putting pressure on people not to use GNU/Linux. 
-Sure, if you're an expert you can find a free software and install it, 
-but there are lots of non experts, and they might see that they 
-installed a version of GNU/Linux which doesn't have that software, and 
-it won't play MP3 files, and they think it's the system's fault. They 
-don't realize it's MP3's fault. But this is the fact.</p>
+doesn't include a player for MP3. As a result if anyone distributes
+some music in MP3, that's putting pressure on people not to use
+GNU/Linux.  Sure, if you're an expert you can find a free software and
+install it, but there are lots of non experts, and they might see that
+they installed a version of GNU/Linux which doesn't have that
+software, and it won't play MP3 files, and they think it's the
+system's fault. They don't realize it's MP3's fault. But this is the
+fact.</p>
 
 <p>Therefore, if you want to support freedom, don't distribute MP3
 files. That's why I say if you're recording my speech and you want to
@@ -1062,6 +1064,13 @@
 Foundation through that site. [&hellip;] There is also the Free Software 
 Foundation of Europe fsfe.org. You can join FSF Europe also. [&hellip;]</p>
 
+<h3 id="footnotes">Footnotes</h3>
+
+<ol>
+  <li id="f1">As of 2017 the patents on playing MP3 files have
+    reportedly expired.</li>
+</ol>
+
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
 <div id="footer">
@@ -1119,7 +1128,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/12/15 10:51:03 $
+$Date: 2017/05/06 04:54:53 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>



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