Oh I dont know. Considering that the companies who hold the patents for things like H.264 are also companies that need us to both consume and create media in order to make a profit from us via sales of hardware, software & services, I dont really think it is in their interests to try to extract more money from everyone in silly ways that would cause a massive backlash, especially those who cannot afford to pay.
Cheers Steve --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Heath" <heathpa...@...> wrote: > > I agree about the worst case scenarios usually, however, given the state of > on line media and given the very real and intense battle going on over > copyrights, copyright protections, the RIAA suing everyone, the big media > corporations working harder than ever to buy legsislation, the inability of > our elected leaders to actually look at an issue, the outdated laws, the > judges who have no idea about new media, etc...and it's kinda hard NOT to go > worst case.... > > Heath > http://heathparks.com/blog > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "elbowsofdeath" <steve@> wrote: > > > > Well I think that article raises some important issues. Its more than a tad > > hysterical in some respects though. > > > > Lets face it, there is no end of legal smallprint issues, if we paid > > attention to every last one and assumed worst case scenarios as that > > article does, I could hardly get out of bed without infringing. > > > > Cheers > > > > Steve > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "tom_a_sparks" <tom_a_sparks@> wrote: > > > > > > http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA > > > > > > it looking more and more like GIF/LZW/Unisys, but it called > > > Microsoft/apple/MPEG-LA/etc > > > > > >
