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by scotty79 314 days ago
> The same obscure forces that have hijacked MPEG had kept it hostage to their interests impeding its technical development and keeping it locked to outmoded Intellectual Property licensing models delaying market adoption of MPEG standards. Industry has been strangled and consumers have been deprived of the benefits of new technologies.

Copyright is cancer. The faster AI industry is going to run it into the ground, the better.

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Does he talk about Fraunhofer there? The guys, subsidized by German taxpayers, starting to charge license or patent fees.

Or is it MPEG LA? https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/MPEG_LA

This has nothing to do with copyright. It is an issue of patents.
I hate copyright too, but this is about patents. Software patents are also cancer.