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Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? (hackaday.com)
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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Nobody cared about patents when MP3 was king. LAME came out in 1998, for god's sake, and immediately obviated Fraunhofer's own encoder through sheer quality of results. There was no overlap between the time normal people cared about MP3s and the practical relevance of these patents to those people.