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The alleged infringement was massive - every download of Chrome 6+ and every Gingerbread+ Android device (or at least the ones with the Google apps) to start. A
by fpgeek 14y ago
The alleged infringement was massive - every download of Chrome 6+ and every Gingerbread+ Android device (or at least the ones with the Google apps) to start. And all of it could easily have been willful - On2 and MPEG-LA had apparently tangled long before Google got involved.
Given that, I think not finding out financial terms is a tell all by itself. As I've said elsewhere in this thread, I don't think Google would be able to hide the cost of an MPEG-LA win in their earnings reports.
- randomfool 14y agoNot to mention that the free internet broadcast license of h264 expires in 2015. After that I am fairly sure that Google will be looking at hefty fees for YouTube if they do not convert over to VP8.
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoThe MPEG-LA extended that free licence to forever already due to the threat of vp8. And YouTube is already converted to VP8. On the other hand you still need to pay to sell TV shows and movies, which Google has just started rolling out as VP8 (starting with ChromeOS clients but expanding from there).
- fpgeek 14y agoGoogle Play Movies and TV is going VP8? Interesting.