Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases
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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    3 hours ago

    The sciences, arts, and commerce existed for thousands of years without these corporate laws.

    lol they also existed with hidden and encrypted ideas to, you know, protect intellectual property…

    “This is propaganda used to play on our emotions”

    Oh do tell

    " at the cost of billions of lives"

    😂

    • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      That literally has nothing to do with patents nowadays. No one is hiding anything anymore, it is about artificial scarcity to collect monopoly rents.

      The fact that you deny that we have already lost billions of lives because of corporations trying to extract monopoly rents is your perogative. It is stupid and ignorant, but your choice.