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- Silver Needle@lemmy.caEnglish5 minutes
If I come up with a concept in philosophy can I patent it and charge money when people use it in their philosophy? Fees for codecs operate on this plane of backwardness. Patents in and of themselves are stupid enough, but the capacity for stupidity within patenting knows no bounds apparently.
2 hourstiny bit clickbait, small companies are still at $100,000 unchanged
not that that should exist, either
- jaykrown@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Here’s why it doesn’t matter:
“AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It was developed as a successor to VP9 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia),[3] a consortium founded in 2015 that includes semiconductor firms, video on demand providers, video content producers, software development companies and web browser vendors.”
- Justifier@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
Here’s why it does matter
Most server hardware thats out there right now doesn’t support av1 encoding, so all of those, literally tens of thousands of them in thousands of spread out data centers have to be replaced with brand new +$1,500 a pop cards that do support it before they can use it
- Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 hour
Most hardware can’t decode it either which is very important. Also it’s currently being sued over patents
- Justifier@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
And those servers are what process your Twitchs, your YouTubes, your Netflixs and etc services
Can’t be too sure about that: https://sh.itjust.works/post/57524423
The whole patent system should just be abolished. And if we can’t achieve that, at least software patents.
- Justifier@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
Nah, we’ve seen what happens with patents. from medical, to agriculture, to automotive to software. The system isn’t working even slightly as originally intended in almost all scenarios and should be dismantled
Honestly probably a good thing long-term, lots of platforms have been dragging their heels in adopting better newer codecs, so maybe this will finally give the justification required to put in the engineering hours.
- LordMayor@piefed.socialEnglish5 hours
The patents have expired everywhere except USA, Brazil and Malaysia.
This is a blatant money grab before they expire everywhere.
- raicon@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
open formats is the way to go. Patents seems more and more like a scam
Software and business method patents have always been bullshit.
Patent the machine, not how you use it. Software is just instructions to a machine.
It’s an outdated legalism. 250 years ago, the patent office operated as an incentive to record and register ideas to the public in exchange for exclusive commercial license.
Now that simply isn’t an issue
- CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
Figures. Patents are the backbone of capitalism. Some say it invented capitalism as we know it.
- Elvith Ma'for@feddit.orgEnglish4 hours
I mean, I get the idea of patents. If there were no protection of “ideas”, some random person could have one, try to bring it to market but could just be outplayed by a big corporation with enough money to copy this idea and sell it everywhere before he can even start production. They have more resources and money, but might not have had that idea. There should be some protection. Problem is, that these are also abused by the big corporations, so… Maybe we need to fix this somehow.
Sure for physical things that need prototypes and materials. That is not a thing with software.
- Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish4 hours
You should be able to own the right to bring a novel idea into production, after it’s generally available then it should have no protection.
Basically if you come up with an idea, you get to get the first initial rounds of profits to make it worth your while, that’s it.
- 3 hours
Patents are a (relatively speaking) newfangled trick to turn ideas into legal “capital.” In the same way that a corporation “is” a person.
The backbone of capitalism? I’m not following that.
Perhaps patients have their place but software patients make no sense. One big issue is that it is not practical to avoid writing a system that already exists because there are many, many ways to describe the same software system. It’s so difficukt to search that multiple people could have already patiented the same thing and be unaware the other exists.
- CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
I’m pretty sure most of the H.264 patents expired or are set to expire next year. Maybe it’s one last cash grab before the best codec ever made is liberated
quietly
Stop putting “quietly” in your fucking headlines, you hacks. This wasn’t “quiet”, it was very publicly announced.
- OrteilGenou@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
slammed
Stop putting “slammed” in your fucking comments, you hacks. This wasn’t “the WWE”, it was very obviously Lemmy.
- 3 hours
Blast
Stop putting “blast” in your fucking comments, you hacks. This wasn’t “NASA”, it was very obviously a user.
- sanpo@sopuli.xyzEnglish5 hours
Last attempt to squeeze some money before these formats are abandoned in favor of competition, I guess.
- IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish5 hours
Last attempt to
squeeze some money beforeget these formatsareabandoned in favor of competition, I guess.FTFY
- SirEDCaLot@lemmy.todayEnglish5 hours
Thing that bothers me is these guys are claiming to have patents over AV1.
The whole point of av1 is it supposed to be free of this bullshit.
fuck the authority, chaining down anything digital because the law is far behind the relative breakneck speed of technological progress.
