Here's why standards bodies and patents don't work: the cartel of 18 companies that hold patents on MPEG 4's underlying tech have finally clarified the cost of commercial use of the codec. Each customer can expect to pay up to a million bucks a year for players and $0.02 an hour, with no cap, per stream served.
Boy, that was predictable. So much for MPEG 4.
MPEG 4 being killed by greed
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