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China Proposes Rival Video Format
Richard Finney writes "Yahoo News is reporting that
the Chinese government is supporting an effort to develop a homegrown standard, called 'AVS,' for compressing digital audio and video in order to avoid paying royalties
on proprietary compression schemes.
The AVS groups website is online but in Chinese."
1.1 billion of whom don't have computers and probably couldn't care less. I get tired of people using China's population as some kind of wow factor while ignoring the fact that the majority of China's population is very poor and is exploited by the communist government for the benefits of a few rich committee members.
Sure, we have a similar situation in the USA, but at least we don't bullshit the world about it and pretend we're all one big happy communist nation. What's probably driving this more than anything, as usual, is the movie pirates. I'm not talking about the pimply faced geek in his basement burning SVCDs, but the hard-core mass duplicators who make the Italian Mafia look like a bunch of tired old wops.
the Chinese government is supporting an effort to develop a homegrown standard, called 'AVS,' for compressing digital audio and video in order to avoid paying royalties on proprietary compression schemes.
Yeah, saving money on royalties on pirated movies...
Because they can't build censorship and spying technology in it in order to suppress the people even more?
kent state, african-americans, iraq, vietnam, an insanely high prison population...
but they have the american flag so "usa! usa! usa!" who cares about people's lives?
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