Play Ogg

The Free Software Foundation/Defective by Design have a new campaign to promote the use of the Ogg Vorbis format for music. Ogg is an open source file format that is better quality than mp3 and not subject to digital rights management restrictions. They write:

Are you tired of constantly being prompted to download proprietarysoftware and plugins to play the videos and listen to the music you want? Are you fed up with seeing new gadgets that only use incompatible and restrictive audio and video formats? Did you know that it's not a lack of technological know-how that causes this, but software patents and other legal restrictions?

Increasingly proprietary software companies like Microsoft, Apple andAdobe are pushing video and audio formats that restrict access and restrict software developers, but there is an alternative that can be played on all computers without restriction — Ogg...

Join us in advocating for Ogg right now by taking 3 Easy Steps: jointhe Play Ogg action alerts list, download the VLC multimedia software,and encourage others to do the same. Start here:


More Information
Free Software Foundation, Play Ogg: <http://playogg.org/>

Wikipedia, Ogg Vorbis: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg>