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Apple Delays QuickTime 6 Over Proposed MPEG-4 Licenses

Posted by timothy on from the loose-the-chickens-for-free-range-eggs dept.

znu writes: "Apple announced at the QuickTime Live! conference today that there's a public preview of QuickTime 6 with full MPEG-4 support ready to ship, but the terms of the proposed MPEG-4 license are holding it back. For those who haven't been following this, MPEG wants $0.25 per encoder/decoder for MPEG-4, up to $2 million per company per year. Apple is fine with that. But MPEG also wants content distributers to pony up $0.02/hour for any content that's distributed for profit. Apple feels that determining just what is "for profit" will be problematic, and that this pricing will seriously inhibit MPEG-4 adoption. You are encouraged to complain to MPEG LA about this situation."

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  1. That REMINDS ME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:Isn't Apple for Homos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Isn't Apple for Homos?

    YES!

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  3. Re:Quicktime 6 Links by Iamthefallen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought it was standard procedure to moderate Troll/Flamebait/Redundant/Overrated when you don't agree with the poster or you simply don't get it?

    And, when the poster makes a long comment using words with mul-ti-ple syll-a-bles, moderate it to +5 interesting/Insightful no matter how incorrect or buzzword packed it is, have I misunderstood the purpose of moderation totally?

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  4. Re:hmm by radish · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    moderators on crack again - I post my personal opinion of a piece of closed source code (which I hate) - and it's a "troll". Whatever...

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  5. It just goes to show you ... by Aceticon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... that all Slashdot moderators are Sadistics - they do it to inflict pain.

    Now if we could implement a module that gives an electric shock to the poster every time he's modded down ....

    Where are my moderator points when i need them ....

    1. Re:It just goes to show you ... by Shiny+Metal+S. · · Score: 1, Offtopic
      Now if we could implement a module that gives an electric shock to the poster every time he's modded down ....
      And even more interesting is what would happen when we're modded up...
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      ~shiny
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  6. Oh my! by macdaddy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Have any of you visited MPEG-LA's website, specifically the contact page? Do so and take a look at the employees' pictures. Wow. MPEG-LA employs some goodlookin' women. Check out Courtney Ford. Oh hell yeah! Check please!