[M4IF News] MPEG-4 Visual License scheme announced

[Mathijn Elhorst]

This sounds all really bad to me, if I understand it correctly. Charging 
for encoding and decoding is normal and everyone is used to it. However, 
charging for usage per hour is effectively killing the standard...  
Would you set up an administrative support system if you had a choice 
not to?  I wouldn't. Whose idea is this? Someone protecting his own 
technology?
Of course, MPEG-4 offers a lot that other proprietary standards don't, 
but in the beginning it is competing against just plain video and audio 
codecs... If it doesn't take off here, nobody would hear about the other 
features of MPEG-4... Everything is about producing content... that's 
why mp3 is still around... everyone started producing and it just took 
off from there...
Just 2 cents...
Mathijn
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