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MPEG LA Announces Permanent Royalty Moratorium For H264

Posted by timothy on from the free-samples dept.

vistapwns writes "MPEG LA has announced that free h264 content (vs. paid h264 content which will still have royalties) will be royalty free forever. With ubiquitous h264 support on mobile devices, personal computers and all other types of media devices, this assures that h264 will remain the de facto standard for video playback for the foreseeable future."

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  1. Re:Paging lawyers by not+already+in+use · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is this one of those soft "pledges" that's not worth the paper it's written on, or is this something legally binding?

    Yeah, you know, kinda like Java and the GPL?

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  2. Re:It's the ISO/IEC standard, not de facto by TheSync · · Score: 0, Troll

    H.264 is not some interloping monopolist, it's a real honest-to-goodness vendor-neutral open standard.

    And (theoretically) all the intellectual property in H.264 is available in a RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory) license.

    However lot of people are DELUDING themselves into believing that other less-popular codec systems do not have any intellectual property infringements, when it is possible they fall under unknown, non-RAND intellectual property claims.

  3. Re:Oh snap. by edrugtrader · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why reinvent the wheel?

    yeah, why reinvent web search when altavista and webcrawler dominate the market?

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