<story><title>AAC Licensors</title><url>http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/licensors.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><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></comment>
<story><title>AAC Licensors</title><url>http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/licensors.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>This is literally just a link to the AAC licensing page. Of course, Fraunhofer originally invented MP3 and got licensing fees from its patents instead.&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;strikethrough&amp;gt;The real WTF is how readily news organisations will just print a press release put out by Fraunhofer saying &amp;quot;MP3 is dead&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;strikethrough&amp;gt;</text></comment>