EU antitrust regulators are investigating the video licensing policy of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), whose members include Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google, Amazon (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta , the European Commission said on Thursday.
EU TO BAN AV1 CODEC?
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>"The Commission has information that AOM and its members may be imposing licensing terms (mandatory royalty-free cross licensing) on innovators that were not a part of AOM at the time of the creation of the AV1 technical, but whose patents are deemed essential to (its) technical specifications," the paper said.
Is that like copyleft? The horror.
Jose White
Glad I don't live in YUROPOOR, how retarded can you be?
Nathan Campbell
Retarded enough to end up on 4ch of all places in the world.
Elijah Collins
daily reminder this is what ukropia dying for
BHUHAHHAHAHAH
Camden Sanders
Freedom?
Christian Johnson
They are dying for AV1? Wow Video encodes are serious business
William Price
wait, how the fuck is an open source project a trust?
Adrian Harris
theora is the only true open video codec.
vp8, vp9 and av1 are just corporate larps to enslave you
Logan Scott
Good thing that I live in the EU, where software patents don't exist
Cooper Cruz
Things like this convince me that the EU leadership (a big committee of bored stuffed suits in a smoke-filled room?) has lost all grip on reality.
Right about how things were in Rome before the barbs sacked it.
So, in 3.. 2.. 1..
David Morris
No, they're right. Americans got too cocky with their garbage corporate standards and ultracapitalism. If they wish to trade in EU territory, they need to be kept on a leash.
Justin Cook
>imposing licensing terms (mandatory royalty-free cross licensing)
Oh no!
Daniel Walker
Based! I need the EU to save me from royalty free cross licensing. Such a horrible thing to have to endure.
Jonathan Price
they never had a grip to begin with dude. this is just business as usual at the EC
Cameron Wood
Fortunately the cookie popups will save us from capitalism.
Jacob Roberts
>just surrender bro. you wouldn't even die if you'd just let Russia invade you. fake war
Tyler Torres
It's just patent flunkies scared for their free income. At least they're merely complaining and launching investigations that will be shut down immediately in the EU, while in the US, they lead the scene and actually have patents on algorithms and are the reason why AV1 was necessary in the first place.
Jackson Diaz
Hum...I wonder who tipped them.
Isaac Price
Does that mean that we could use x264, x265 and so on if Any Forums was hosted in Europe?
Jason Thompson
isn't like royalty free? what licensings?
Landon Green
Unironically true though. What are they gonna do? Put normal people in gas chambers or somerhing?