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Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by MCRed on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @12:56PM (#8291201)
Bonjour was released under an open source license, part of it the Apache license, and does not require a royalty to be paid to Apple.

I turned on HTML5 video for youtube and I still have this problem, because they don't encode all videos in MP4.

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Re:Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event by deelowe on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @01:11PM (#8291324)
You seem to have missed this bit

> Because people would have to pay licensing fees several times for the same stream

Many groups have spoken out about the licensing issues with pictures, video, and audio. That's what has created this mess.

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