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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 increa (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Cellari@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

It's usually fixed with a good competition. No one corporate can abuse the system if viable competitions exists.

But if I had to give some critique, then the duration for USA patent system is one that can create a money grab system by creating a costly dependency to a legacy system that has grown so long it is hard to replace.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Competition only works when the stuff you're protecting can have competition. If it's an algorithm that's objectively better with no alternative, it doesn't really work.

[–] Cellari@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

That's not entirely fair to claim as so. There is competition like AV1, but it is lacking in marketing and brutality. Can't really compete against big corporate if the goal is not to eat business profits from others like it is a vendetta.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Market liberalism is not the answer. It's what we have today. It ends up with the giants eating the competition and using any advantage they have got. Only active legislation works against legal abuse against those that see it as sport.

[–] Cellari@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 17 minutes ago)

Legislation would help, but so would a vendetta against a big corporation. Can't really compete if your corporate is assimilated or not planning to eat away the profits from competition. :D

Not claiming that is all it would take