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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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[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 249 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The patents have expired everywhere except USA, Brazil and Malaysia.

This is a blatant money grab before they expire everywhere.

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[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 47 points 6 months ago (1 child)

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[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 months ago

But you then are forced to move to the US

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