minus-squareCriticalMiss@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•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 increalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·6 days agoI’m pretty sure most of the H.264 patents expired or are set to expire next year. Maybe it’s one last cash grab before the best codec ever made is liberated linkfedilink
minus-squareCriticalMiss@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip historylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·10 days agoSEC? In this day and age? Yeah… right… linkfedilink
minus-squareCriticalMiss@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be nextlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·18 days agoCommercial VPNs are businesses too :) linkfedilink
I’m pretty sure most of the H.264 patents expired or are set to expire next year. Maybe it’s one last cash grab before the best codec ever made is liberated