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Interview With The MPEG Committee's Founder

Posted by timothy on from the moving-pictures dept.

JasonFleischer points out this "interview with Leonardo Chiariglione, digital video pioneer and founder of the MPEG standards committee, is available on the public access section Scientific American's website. In the interview Chiariglione explains the motivations and hopes for his new Digital Media Project -- an attempt to integrate existing technologies to create a transparent, universal, non-proprietary system for digital rights management. Of particular interest to some /.ers may be his old article from Linux Journal that talks about the relationship between Open Source and MPEG standards."

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  1. Patents by heironymouscoward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Incidentally, since the MPEG standards are so heavily dependent on software patents: there is a demonstration in about 1 hour in Brussels against the EU implementation of software patents.

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  2. Re:Unsettling by pe1rxq · · Score: 2, Informative

    In some countries violating someones copyright is criminal... However still another part of criminal law.

    Atleast he wasn't comparing it to committing theft in the high seas...

    Jeroen

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  3. Re:Any "standard" which you need a licence for... by imsabbel · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. The point of a patent is to allow companies to disclose information to the public which they would else keep secret.
    At least that was the initial intent. Just browse the patent databases and look how much knowledge there is for everyone to see.

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  4. Re:MPEG 50 years from now? by maharg · · Score: 4, Informative

    Granted MPEG is not broadcast / archival quality (correct me if I am wrong),

    You are wrong.
    MPEG-2 as used for Digital TV broadcasts runs anywhere from around 3mbps (megabits per second) for drama content or talking heads/news, up to 8mbps for more dynamic content such as sports.

    MPEG-2 for production can go above 50mbps, and sure is good enough for archival !!!

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