Apple Delays QuickTime 6 Over Proposed MPEG-4 Licenses

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 12, 2002 @07:31PM 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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Re:It just goes to show you ... by Shiny+Metal+S. · 2002-02-13 02:46 · 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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Oh my! by macdaddy · 2002-02-13 02:52 · 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!