commander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoFirm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increawww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square127fedilinkarrow-up1643arrow-down19
arrow-up1634arrow-down1external-linkFirm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increawww.tomshardware.comcommander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square127fedilink
minus-squareSpecter@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours ago ut could just be outplayed by a big corporation with enough money to copy this idea and sell it everywhere before he can even start production. Which is also why Anti-Trust laws exist in pretty much every country and, when enforced, actually stop companies from becoming gargantuan Hydras. In the US they haven’t been implemented for too long, of course.
Which is also why Anti-Trust laws exist in pretty much every country and, when enforced, actually stop companies from becoming gargantuan Hydras.
In the US they haven’t been implemented for too long, of course.