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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 02 2013 @ 05:15 PM EST |
When Patent Pools Attack:
Competitive Concerns from the
Devolution of MPEG
LA
Interestingly MPEG LA embodies both of the
concerns with patent pools outlined above and by the
DOJ in its approval of
the patent pool’s licensing
structure. First, MPEG LA may overtly inhibit the
ability
of its members to develop any technology that may
compete with
customers of the MPEG LA pool. Most
notably, MPEG LA was involved in a dispute
with pool-
participant Google. In 2010 Google introduced WebM,
an open-source
solution to uploading videos to the
web. Google designed WebM to serve as an
alternative
to H.264, the primary video compression technology in
Microsoft
and Apple devices that is covered by the
MPEG LA patent pool. All three are
members of the
MPEG LA patent pool, and pay royalties to the
company (although
Apple contributed only one patent
to the pool). MPEG LA asserted that Google’s
WebM
product practices on or infringes patents in the pool,
and demanded that
users of the WebM product pay
royalties to the pool. A license from Google
would not
be enough. In fact, in early 2011 MPEG LA instructed
patent owners
to inform the pool of patents that might
they might believe the WebM product
uses. The DOJ
initiated an investigation into whether MPEG LA is
acting
anticompetitively by trying to quash the Google
WebM product through assertion
of patents as a patent
pool. The investigation appears to be on-going.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 02 2013 @ 06:04 PM EST |
Actually one cannot blame an attacker for "badmouthing by attack"
software that has the bugs. The fault is caused by the bugs. And these are not
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 02 2013 @ 09:19 PM EST |
Another java exploit, on the day that Apple block older Flash
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 04 2013 @ 11:30 AM EST |
Because they are the only party able to destroy Java by an excess of bugs. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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