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Closed for patent infringement This site has been shut down because of numerous patent violations in MPlayer. The other free software multimedia players are next. The European commission has just passed its directive on software patents, violating democratic rules and procedures to the sole benefit of big non-European corporation and Ireland and to the detriment of small and medium sized businesses (which comprise 99% of the European software industry) and free software.

The implications of this idea are far-reaching for human communication, including journalism. If there is no longer a reason to tightly regulate the broadcast spectrum, then just about anyone would be allowed to broadcast.