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New MPEG-4 Licensing Scheme

Posted by michael on from the pay-per-view dept.

morcheeba writes: "EETimes is reporting that the licensing of MPEG-4 patents will be substantially different than the existing MPEG-2 licenses. The per-player fee will be substantially cheaper ($0.25 instead of $2.50), but a new "use fee" component of $0.02/hour will be charged to service providers. More on MPEG-4 in general at MacWeek; The MPEG-4 Industry Forum and MPEG LA are handling the licenses."

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  1. Re:quicktime by Lars+T. · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yet another Slashdot poster who doesn't know what Quicktime is. No, I'm not going to bother teaching you, you lazy git.

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    Lars T.

    To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck

  2. Re:Economics of the past by Dutchmaan · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    "Are you kidding me? Malevolent? Are you sitting there at your computer with a serious face telling me that the MPEG-4 Forum's licensing scheme is evil?"

    Depends on your defenition of evil now doesn't it.

    Is MPEG-4's licensing scheme evil? Probably not.
    Can it be a part of a larger corporate ideology that I would view as "evil" .. possibly.

    Try looking at things from a perspective that isn't your own once in a while...and quite frankly from the condescending tone of your posts, I would imagine that you don't possess the ability to see things from any other perspective than the one that puts your nose at the center.

    "Blowing up buildings is malevolent. Killing people is malevolent. Charging a per-use-hour fee to your customers is business."

    Agreed...however it is in my view that business in regards to revenue acquisition and preservation in it's ultimate nature is entirely self-serving and therefore, in my opinion, "evil".

    A business and some point in it's life crosses a line where the focus of the company is no longer on the products it produces, but rather the aquistion of revenue.

    It's the very subtle difference in taking pride in products, offering them to the public, who in turn pay you for said products. As opposed to looking at the public merely as a source of revenue where your main objective is to get the most for giving the least.

    It's a subtle difference and not surprising that it would escape your comprehension.