According to the current top story on Slashdot right now, Thompson/Fraunhofer are going to try to start collecing licensing fees for MP3 _DE_coders of $0.75 per decoder. (here is the relevant link to the Thompson licensing page.)

Any idea how this might affect us empeg owners, particularly in terms of new beta versions???

And the obvious related question: what's the status of OGG Vorbis support in the code at the moment?