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    Re: Music while building —Steve Bliss
   (...) I hope this won't be much of a debate: there's nothing illegal or even gray-area about the MP3 format, unless you use an encoder that infringes on the relavent technology patents. Legally, there's no difference between copying your CDs to (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Music while building —Eric Joslin
   (...) Exactly. How can a format be illegal? This kind of half-informed speak gives me hives. I used to watch a lot of CNN, and during the Napster flap they would talk about how users downloaded MP3s from the Napster website. Argh! eric (23 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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