<story><title>AAC Licensors</title><url>http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/licensors.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whyleyc</author><text>Except Fraunhofer did not promote MP3 as “dead&amp;quot;. They put out a press release announcing the &amp;quot;termination&amp;quot; of various MP3-related patents[1].&lt;p&gt;As Marco noted[2] news orgs took that original announcement and twisted it into a &amp;quot;creators announce MP3 is dead&amp;quot; story, presumably because there are more clicks to be had there than a story about patent expirations.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.iis.fraunhofer.de&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;ff&amp;#x2F;amm&amp;#x2F;prod&amp;#x2F;audiocodec&amp;#x2F;audiocodecs&amp;#x2F;mp3.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.iis.fraunhofer.de&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;ff&amp;#x2F;amm&amp;#x2F;prod&amp;#x2F;audiocodec&amp;#x2F;audi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marco.org&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;mp3-isnt-dead&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marco.org&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;mp3-isnt-dead&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msravi</author><text>The press release from Fraunhofer is extremely misleading:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has been terminated&lt;p&gt;This gives the impression that the patents are valid but will no longer be available for licensing, and you can&amp;#x27;t buy licensing rights to build your mp3 player - in reality, the patents expired, making them free.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ...there are more efficient audio codecs with advanced features available today&lt;p&gt;Assert that mp3 is dead today&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; However, most state-of-the-art media services such as streaming or TV and radio broadcasting use modern ISO-MPEG codecs such as the AAC family or in the future MPEG-H. Those can deliver more features and a higher audio quality at much lower bitrates compared to mp3&lt;p&gt;Reiterate that mp3 is dead today&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not surprised that the media took this as &amp;quot;mp3 is dead&amp;quot; and ran with it. The blame lies as much with Fraunhofer for their misleading statements as with the rest of the media.</text></comment>
<story><title>AAC Licensors</title><url>http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/licensors.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whyleyc</author><text>Except Fraunhofer did not promote MP3 as “dead&amp;quot;. They put out a press release announcing the &amp;quot;termination&amp;quot; of various MP3-related patents[1].&lt;p&gt;As Marco noted[2] news orgs took that original announcement and twisted it into a &amp;quot;creators announce MP3 is dead&amp;quot; story, presumably because there are more clicks to be had there than a story about patent expirations.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.iis.fraunhofer.de&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;ff&amp;#x2F;amm&amp;#x2F;prod&amp;#x2F;audiocodec&amp;#x2F;audiocodecs&amp;#x2F;mp3.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.iis.fraunhofer.de&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;ff&amp;#x2F;amm&amp;#x2F;prod&amp;#x2F;audiocodec&amp;#x2F;audi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marco.org&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;mp3-isnt-dead&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marco.org&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;mp3-isnt-dead&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arrrg</author><text>Exactly, Fraunhofer is blameless in this. They did in no way even suggest that MP3 was dead. Maybe the press release was a bit lacking in detail so that complete doofuses with no knowledge of the matter could misinterpret it, but that’s more on them.</text></comment>