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MPEG LA Announces Call For DASH Patents

Posted by Soulskill on from the grab-grab-grab dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The MPEG LA has announced a call for patents essential to the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (or DASH) standard. According to the MPEG LA's press release, "Market adoption of DASH technology standards has increased to the point where the market would benefit from the availability of a convenient nondiscriminatory, nonexclusive worldwide one-stop patent pool license." The newly formed MPEG-DASH patent pool's licensing program will allegedly offer the market "efficient access to this important technology."

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  1. Not Quite by doas777 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, what we need is an abolishment on Software Patents, so that armed thugs like the MPEGLA can't extort licensing fees from a developer because the code they wrote on their own happens to do something that is abstractly claimed in some random poor quality patent.

  2. License-free provides the most efficient access by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The newly formed MPEG-DASH patent pool's licensing program will allegedly offer the market "efficient access to this important technology."

    This patenting places a burden on such access, the exact opposite of their declared purpose.

    Pure, unadulterated, greedy bastards.