[Foundation-l] Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?

[Milos Rancic]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 5:26 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be a simple matter of programming to have something that
> allows upload of encumbered video and audio formats and re-encode them
> as Ogg Theora or Ogg Vorbis. It would greatly add to how much stuff we
> get, as it would save the user the trouble of re-encoding, or
> installing Firefogg, or whatever.
>
> So why don't we do this? Has it been officially assessed as a legal
> risk * (and I mean more than people saying it might be on a mailing
> list **), has no-one really bothered, or what?
>
>
> * until the Supreme Court uses in re Bilski to drive the software
> patents into the ocean, cross fingers.
> ** though I fully expect people will now do so anyway

Another option is to treat Internet Archive as external source of media.