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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. Isn't Apple for Homos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I guess all those faggots will have to beat off to their VHS copies of Bruce Buggers Randy.

    Mac, the GayOS ®

  2. HELIOCENTRIC IS GAY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just thought I would spread the word that HELIOCENTRIC IS GAY and WOULD LOVE TO BE PART OF YOUR GAY ORGY. He enjoys being the BITCH and being DOMINATED. He doesn't mind TAKING IT UP THE ASS even if your member is ABOVE AVERAGE and causes him EXTREME DISCOMFORT.

  3. Re:hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The real problem there is lack of loopback support.

  4. That would be a good idea, actually... by ringbarer · · Score: -1, Troll

    A pointless codec for a pointless operating system.

    Hopefully if enough OSS neofascists complain loudly enough, Apple will be forced to squander more of their money on developing software that no-one is going to pay for.

    The reason Linux doesn't have the full suite of useful applications is that the companies producing those apps KNOW that Linux users are pirates, demanding "free" software instead of paying for it.

    --
    "Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
  5. investing in open-source software pays itself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    if you look at apple, they could now start supporting opendivx-development. MIT people even got a live server in development...

    quicktime sucks anyway with this sorenson shit - a codec you can smoke in a pipe...

  6. Re:(OT - URL)Talk about throwing money around... by The_Fire_Horse · · Score: -1, Troll

    Offtopic, I know; but I checked your slashdot URL for the 'buttfucker' job and I got an email back from Billy Boy that the job was taken by a strange guy called 'Commanda Teco?' or something - you know you should really should take the job adverts off once the position is filled - it sure would save us poor jobseekers a lot of time.
    Thanks in advance :)