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Authored by: symbolset on Sunday, November 18 2012 @ 02:34 PM EST |
Yes, the purpose of MPEG LA is to restrict the use of compressed video - an
essential modern technology - to the use of its members exclusively. Hence the
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 18 2012 @ 02:40 PM EST |
The competition of Flash video and all the other competitive video
technologies has been killed by Apple's exclusionary conduct and
Microsoft
want to make the exclusion complete ...
Adobe's reaction was to
rapidly phase out the ON8 codec and use H264 within the Flash framework. After
all it was an ITU/ISO standard...
Microsoft's explanation of their move to h264 for
IE9 referred
to the MPEG-LA allowance for free
licensing [pdf] of the codecs for viewing AVC/H264 content
that was free of charge to viewers on the internet. Note this document states
that it is a
"corrected version". Microsoft's explanation claimed that the
viewing was free "on licensed platforms like Windows". Who knows if this was
deception or
ignorance.
ISO/IEC
STANDARD 14496-10
Second edition 2004-10-01
Information technology —
Coding of audio-visual objects —
Part 10: Advanced Video
Coding
[p.viii] This part of ISO/IEC 14496 is technically aligned with
ITU-T Rec. H.264 but is not published as identical text.
[p.267] Annexe
F
The International Organization for Standardization and International
Electrotechnical Commission draw attention to the fact that it is claimed
that
conformance with this specification may involve the use of
inventions covered by patent rights.
ISO and IEC take no position
concerning the evidence, validity, and scope of these patent rights.
The
following parties have informed ISO and IEC that they may hold patent rights
relevant to this part of this International Standard, and have assured ISO
and IEC that they are willing to negotiate licenses under reasonable and
non-discriminatory terms and conditions with applicants throughout the world
for patent rights necessary in order to manufacture, use, and/or sell
implementations of this part of this International Standard.
Table F-1 –
Organisations providing patent rights licensing notices
[inter alia]
...
Microsoft Corporation
...
Motorola
... [emphasis
added]
Unfortunately I don't have an uptodate version of this
document. Nor do I still have the notice VLC once published stating their stance
on patent claims. It
may have been removed as it could have been construed as
legal advice, altho' all it said was
[paraphrased] We don't know what
patents might or might not be involved. If you want a proper answer go see your
lawyer.
According to the Wayback Machine the notice currently appearing
at
http://www.videolan.org/press/patents.html has been there since 2009-02-01,
and my attempts to get the earlier version are blocked by fog. I have
been a
happy user of x264, but recent events are causing me to take precautions against
the eventual dawn busting down of my door. I live only 15 km from
where it
happened to Mr Dotcom.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 18 2012 @ 03:05 PM EST |
This boilerplate appears on various files in the ffmpeg and vlc
families
unfortunately I don't find any corresponding h264 code on my
machine.
/* vlc.h, variable length code tables (used by routines in
putvlc.c) */
/* Copyright (C) 1996, MPEG Software Simulation
Group. All Rights Reserved. */
/*
* Disclaimer of Warranty
*
* These software programs are available to the user without any license
fee or
* royalty on an "as is" basis. The MPEG Software Simulation Group
disclaims
* any and all warranties, whether express, implied, or statuary,
including any
* implied warranties or merchantability or of fitness for a
particular
* purpose. In no event shall the copyright-holder be liable for
any
* incidental, punitive, or consequential damages of any kind
whatsoever
* arising from the use of these programs.
*
* This
disclaimer of warranty extends to the user of these programs and user's
*
customers, employees, agents, transferees, successors, and assigns.
*
* The MPEG Software Simulation Group does not represent or warrant that the
* programs furnished hereunder are free of infringement of any third-party
* patents.
*
* Commercial implementations of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video,
including shareware,
* are subject to royalty fees to patent holders. Many
of these patents are
* general enough such that they are unavoidable
regardless of implementation
* design.
*
*/
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- vlc.h - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 19 2012 @ 02:22 AM EST
- vlc.h - Authored by: yacc on Monday, November 19 2012 @ 09:10 AM EST
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Authored by: yacc on Monday, November 19 2012 @ 09:18 AM EST |
Lucky for me, I live in a country that does not extradite
it's own citizens. If your DA wants to prosecute me, he is
free to send over his evidence, and then the local DA will
decide if it warrants local prosecution.
The UK/US extradition agreement would not pass constitutional
muster.
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