TBF these days ALAC is not that much different from FLAC and equally lossless and open source/royalty free. It's just that ALAC as used prioritizes file size over decode speed.
No court has an enforcement arm. Its all done by law enforcement. Hence the name. The Judicial Branch has to wait for the Executive Branch to enforce the ruling.
Not an option for me yet. Especially after I found out some instances federate messages slowly. Like up to an hour late slowly.