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Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 5 days ago

Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million

www.tomshardware.com

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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million

www.tomshardware.com

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Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 5 days ago

Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases

www.tomshardware.com

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So paying is optional? I don’t get it…
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  Neither do I. Most of h264 is either open domain now or it will be very soon

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