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Re: www.8hz.com, mp3 & Fraunhofer Institute

Jonathan Walther (dibos@starnetc.com)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 01:10:36 -0700 (PDT)

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Please send it to me. One of my hobbies is collecting "trophy" source
code. This used to mean games like Doom, Quake and Descent. But now those
are released free anyways, Crypto, Historic and Patent Violation source
makes up my collection.

Jonathan

It's been said I was Zorros maniacal twin brother -- Juanito Peligros (1778)

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Ya`akov N. Miles wrote:

> Website www.8hz.com got into trouble
> with the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany
> over their use of the mp3 protocols. They
> had to delete their version of a Linux MP3
> encoder program, even though they wrote
> their own source code. If anybody wants
> the Linux version of the 8hz mp3 encoder,
> I have the sources and generation scripts
> in a 300 K tar.gz file that I can ship you...
>
> --
> Linux - it isn't just for breakfast anymore...
> Note http://www.cheapbytes.com for (almost) free Linux & freeBSD CD-ROMs
> and http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/xiphmont/cdparanoia for CD ripper
>
>
>

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