Microsoft ordered to pay $1.5 billion in MP3 patent lawsuit - Club CDFreaks

**platinumsword** · 23-02-2007

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According to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Microsoft has been ordered by a federal jury in San Diego to pay $1.52 billion to Alcatel-Lucent, for allegedly infringing on their patent technologies related to MP3 compression.

Story: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070222-8910.html

*samlar* · 23-02-2007

Just means they will pass the cost on to people who buy windows.

*debro* · 24-02-2007

Yep

But not to those those that go with linux, or use an independant/liberated activation server

23-02-2007	#2 (permalink)
samlar CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: here Posts: 1,264	Re: Microsoft ordered to pay $1.5 billion in MP3 patent lawsuit Just means they will pass the cost on to people who buy windows.

24-02-2007	#3 (permalink)
debro Blown to smitherines Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: The c@ke mixer Posts: 9,662	Re: Microsoft ordered to pay $1.5 billion in MP3 patent lawsuit Yep But not to those those that go with linux, or use an independant/liberated activation server __________________ CDFreaks - Overwhelmed by Ignorance since 2005! We lost the battle, but we haven't lost the war! Click Here to sign up to the resistance movement! Viva La Resistance! Admitting that you've illegally downloaded movies/songs and need help to process/burn is comparable to robbing a bank, and walking into the bank the next day holding the bags of money to deposit them into your account. Don't be surprised if people laugh at you when you make the headlines.

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