Use free standards without DRM

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In connection with the recent behavior of such companies as Nokia, Apple have put pressure on w3c (World Wide Web Consortium) it for the last changed the format for video in the web, instead of Ogg / Theora + Vorbis. Nokia recommends using the format H.264 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264) (MPEG-4) for video and AAC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding) for the sound . Nokia outlined his position in an open letter (http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/positions/Nokia.pdf), which refers to the use of proprietary technologies in the format Ogg, and the lack of funds to support the protection of copyright (DRM). But H.264 and ACC also reserved patents and require payments for the use, Ogg / Theora + Vorbis, in turn, requires no deductions and has patent which will provide protection from companies who want to "sell air". Looking at the quality of compression in some cases it wins or goes on an equal footing with H.264/ACC.
Make Ogg / Theora + Vorbis standard and do not change it, and Nokia and Apple earns money though other means.

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  • Anton Kapinys
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    • Use free standards without DRM
  • Oleksandr Natalenko
    • Comments
    • Let the community to decide.
  • Denis K. Zhydkov
  • Pavel Maryanov
  • Lev Belava
  • Graynko Alexander
    • Comments
    • DRM o_0?)
  • Vitali
  • Thomas
  • Vitali Druzinin
  • Stanislaus
  • Maximus
    • Comments
    • Completely agree and sign with no doubt.
  • Rinat
  • Roman
  • Evgeny Lomkov
  • Gleb Litvjak
    • Comments
    • I hate proprietary formats. Viva la Vorbis!
  • Evgen
    • Comments
    • ogg for all !!!
  • Roman Fomin
    • Comments
    • Open standard, it is normal.
  • Alexander Polakov
  • Vitaliy
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    • absolutely agree with author
  • Lego
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    • DRM will kill the world...
  • Daniel Levin
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    • As developer I can confirm that Ogg/Vorbis+Theora is the ideal choice for web from points of performance and free of patent limitations. According to Nokia letter "... propietary technology such as Ogg..." - that guys don't even know what they are talking about. At least because Ogg is just a media container, not an audio/video codec. I suppose next step will be DRM infecting and binding web community to a "choosen one" IHV/ISV.
  • Vassallo Zaulo
  • John Doe
  • Anistratov Oleg
  • Dmitry
    • Comments
    • i allways liked Nokia, i hope they will solve things properly, or else i will have to like some other phone manufacter
  • Fedorov Evgeny
  • Alex Kiriukha
    • Comments
    • Standards should be free.
  • aruseni magiku
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    • What's wrong with Ogg? Quality is better, file size is lower. It's open source, after all.
  • Dmitri Novikov
  • Ivan Mironov
  • dive
  • Artyom Loenko
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    • $
  • Vyacheslav Yurkov
  • Anton
  • Vadim Krapivin
  • Vladimir
  • Maksim Kisilyov
  • Maxim Treskin
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    • DRM is big step to old age
  • Nickolay Kartsev
  • Konstantin Yakunin
  • Din
  • overmind88
  • Anton Anikin
  • Konstantin Malikov
  • Evgeny Ratnikov
    • Comments
    • stop DRM madness
  • Ekimov Alexandr Vladimirovich
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    • В
  • Andrei Shvetsoff
  • Maksym
    • Comments
    • New format must not require licence fee from developers
  • Anton
    • Comments
    • В
  • Paul Karatun