honor harger on Thu, 7 Feb 2002 06:16:52 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> Re: MPEG-4 Goes Pay-Per-View (fwd) |
Hi, >It's been pointed out that many small Web sites have essentially been >driven out of business by their own popularity -- as rising hits = more >use of bandwidth = big bill$$$$ > >Well, now it gets worse. MPEG LA, the holding firm that manages patent >rights for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, has announced their new licensing terms for >MPEG-4: > >http://www.mpegla.com/news_release31Jan2002.html > >Of particular interest are new pay-per-stream and pay-per-encoded- copy >fees that the content distributor has to pay (quoted below): Which makes the development of DivX;) and any other work Project Mayo <http://www.projectmayo.com/> are working on even more pressing and critical. Let's wish them luck, and hope that a true streaming version of DivX;) isn't too far away. Best Honor ___________________________________________________ Honor Harger honor@va.com.au Current Projects: * r a d i o q u a l i a: http://www.radioqualia.net * Free Radio Linux: the first net.radio distribution of the operating system, Linux. http://www.radioqualia.net/freeradiolinux * i s o l : a cartography of new zealand in sound http://www.radioqualia/net/isol # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net