[CentOS] Platform independent solution to watch "Streaming Service of the Council of the European Union.

Mon Jan 1 21:47:19 UTC 2007
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Michel Daggelinckx wrote:
> Its more about europe forceing us to use closed source software.
> I also wonder if decodeing WMV on linux is legal.
> This might give the same problems as MP3 does.
>


Nearly all media formats contain various patented intellectual 
property.  So do many streaming algorithms.   For instance, all the 
various MPEG layers are full of patented IP.

Seems like the real agenda is to force the EU to use Ogg Vorbis or 
something equally obscure, so that the windows/mac world has to suffer 
through as much complexity as the FOSS world is used to.