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Re:The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been te... by xroche on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @01:26AM (#14253268)
> will mean that everyone gets to use the newest and greatest algorithms

There are no such newest and greatest algorithms that are private and covered by patents. This is an illusion.

Re:The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been te... by Nomentatus on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:59PM (#14261341)
It's not just a matter of encryption or compression; there are always better and worse ways of doing things. We have seen large advances in the past there and elsewhere, you're predicting progress won't happen again - a bad bet.