on 7/6/2007 4:01 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >snip< > But I can get the codecs for free, jut not their copyrighted versions. > The question is, can the holder of the patent on an algorithm who has > already been paid for a license to use on the device I have prevent me > from using a different version of that same algorithm? >snip< Ok Les. Yes you can 'get them for free'. Sure you can. You can accept stolen goods anytime you chose. You can use them in a, at best, dark grey situation. And no they will probably not come after you like the music people have gone after many of the music thieves on services like Napster or the movie companies have gone after the people stealing movies with Bittorrent. They called it 'sharing' and the courts have called it stealing. Still does not make it right does it? Have you every really think about just *where* the third party sites are located? Or just how they got what they offer? Not in the US where they could get busted for sure. Nor, probably, in a legal manor. But I don't really care what you chose to do. I watch my movies from 'Pay-For-View' cable, subscription movie services like HBO, or from a DVD player and rented DVDs attached to the tv hanging on the family room wall. Not on a tiny computer monitor. My music is played on a stereo in the same room. Not on a computer with tiny speakers. Some from radio and some from CDs that I have bought. I don't need to steal to entertain myself or to 'beat the system'. Nuf Sed? You can, and probably will, reply to this. Some people have to have the last word. Go ahead if that make you feel as if you won the debate. I don't care. Oh. And I don't steal either. Again. Have a nice day. -- David
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