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2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Karlheinz Brandenburg

I remember a day quite some time ago—I think it must have been 2001 or so, when I was here for a conference and I looked at the display of one of these electronics shops and I saw thirty different brands of MP3 players. So I said okay, finally we got the breakthrough, now everybody uses it.

Karlheinz Brandenburg’s Internet Hall of Fame 2014 Induction Speech

Thanks goes to everybody who helped to spread the technology. Okay, no. There’s one guy I won’t thank, and that’s the one who used a stolen credit card number to buy our software and then spread it claiming it’s free. He did help us, but still I don’t thank him.