Behind the open codec FUD attack

“The FUD attack launched against Ogg Theora and VP8, the very
idea that they violate patents, is not aimed at the courts, but at
the W3C, which held a conference on the coming HTML5 standards last
week in Raleigh.

“While audio and video files are currently handled through
object tags, HTML5 will support standard audio and video tags,
support for which will be defined in the browser.

“Microsoft and Apple are carrying the water of the content
industries, which fear that losing control of the technology under
which content is displayed results in losing control of the content
itself. That control is expressed through the MPEG LA licensing
body.”

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