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Oh look just as the AV1 consortium is also deciding to do shakedowns. It's a good thing the open source community have a history of building functional and well performing codecs, especially when it comes to media formats.
Maybe in misunderstanding, but that story seems to be about Dolby going after AV1, not the other way around.
Lemmy really has a piss poor reading comprehension.
You mean the world
Oh man. I hope Dolby looses. Patents are way too long and benefit so few that I think they shouldn't be justified/exist in society. Also some stuff should be decided in court to be essential technology and patents/claims should then be dissolved.
loses
I believe the error was in the AV1 license NOT having a "if you enforce patent-license-fees on this codec, THEN you can't use this codec" type of coercion..
( I may have got the logic wrong, but there's some kind of license that works that way, which other open codecs have used, apparently )
Just ignoring that predators exist .. provides NO protection from them.
You have to make your license-agreement break abusers, .. or you're just helping them.
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