▲ 736 ▼ 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) submitted 6 months ago by commander@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 158 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago (1 child) They need more regulating so they can't be abused by trolls permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 point 6 months ago There is different regulations all around the world so its probably got enough regulation. I dont think patent trolling is an actual problem im not aware of it happening at a meaningful scale. A worse problem is AI basically destroying copyright overnight but only for some cases. This creates such a horribly asymmetric environment where big companies are blatantly ignoring copyright while other industries still have to respect it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 point 6 months ago There is different regulations all around the world so its probably got enough regulation. I dont think patent trolling is an actual problem im not aware of it happening at a meaningful scale. A worse problem is AI basically destroying copyright overnight but only for some cases. This creates such a horribly asymmetric environment where big companies are blatantly ignoring copyright while other industries still have to respect it. permalink fedilink source parent