Jahern,
With all due respect, I don’t think you understood Admin’s response to Rmclain post.
At no time as Admin calling or even implying that anyone was a crook.
MP3 technology IS NOT licensed to end-users. So Rmclain can use it, legally, to his heart's content as long as he remains an "end-user."
The way I read it, Admin merely explained what MTU had to do to profit from MP3’s Technology. In other words,
MTU IS NOT going to support anything without paying royalties to whomever owns the technology in question.
Someone developed MP3 compression, and
THAT someone deserves to be paid royalties for the use of its technology by commercial entities that use it as part of their services to its customers.
You can bet that your last dime that when you use any commercial software (Nero Burning for example) to compress your musical files into MP3 format, Nero has paid royalties to the developers of MP3 technology, just like computer makers pay royalties to Microsoft for the use of its Windows Operating System.
I repeat, in my opinion, Admin was only stating MTU’s position as to the support of MP3’s on its line of products. At no time did he call anyone a crook.
To read most everything there is to know about MP3 licensing requirements, please click the following link, you'll learn a lot from it.
http://www.mp3licensing.com/help/index.html
I hope this helps you understand better.
Sincerely,
Jon