It was only a matter of time. Nero AG, a German company responsible for the popular Nero Burning software suite that has ballooned to such incredible bloatware that it now includes integrated transcoding and a media player. Of course when video is involved that means MPEG LA is involved. MPEG LA is the licensing consortium responsible for the MPEG2 and MPEG 4 H.264 codec’s patent pools. Nero is alleging anti-trust and patent abuse violations. With MPEG LA now being assaulted on multiple fronts with the release of WebM by Google, we could be seeing the beginning of a full scale nuclear war between the major software players that, just like nuclear war in the real world, can only end in mutual destruction.
Entries Tagged 'IP' ↓
Patent Fun
May 25th, 2010 — Apple, Google, IP, Programming, Technology
Rupert is Crazy
April 2nd, 2010 — Apple, IP, Technology
Engadget just announced that they found out the price for the iPad subscription for the Wall Street Journal. The access gives you 7 days of archive of the WSJ and a few other non-innovative features like save for later. This crazy technology will cost you $17.29 per month. This should be compared to the PRINT & Online version subscription which will set you back about $11.50/Mo. So for less (you don’t get the print) you pay a lot more. 50% more.