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A comment on New Patent Pool Wants 0.5% of Content Owner/Distributor's Gross Revenue for HEVC.

Re:New Patent Pool Wants 0.5% of Content Owner/Distributor's... by A-F1V3 on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @07:52PM (#9933136)
Daala can't get here fast enough.
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Re:New Patent Pool Wants 0.5% of Content Owner/Distributor's... by mmcclure on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @08:15PM (#9933236)
But seriously, if this actually comes to pass, HEVC is dead in the water. No matter how terrific the gains may be, usage terms this egregious will drive a lot of adoption for Daala or VP9's successor.
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