Comment on Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million

Korkki@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

4500% increase

Absolute financial parasitism. This is why we can’t have nice things. People who own a license of something critical can just sit on their asses decades on end and collect unearned income from other companies who will in turn move to cost to the consumers.

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