Delirium wrote:
I'm not so sure about mp3. Certainly there are parties who *claim* it is not usable legally, but the software is in fact generally available for all operating systems, and to my knowledge there have been no lawsuits attempting to put an end to its availability (and certainly no successful ones). The decoder at the very least is almost certainly legally okay, and widely available in players like winamp and xmms, and even the encoders, like LAME, are rather common and have not received legal threats.
BladeEnc has, as far as I can remember.
You’re most possibly right about the decoders.