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Web giants gang up to take on MPEG LA, HEVC Advance with royalty-free streaming codec

Charles 9

"And yet Microsoft is a member of the Alliance for Open Media that is developing the new codec. Perhaps they also would like to be done with the need to pay royalties for patents that many think ought not to have been issued."

And yet Microsoft is part of MPEG-LA last I checked, meaning they get a cut of the proceeds.

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