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mandarinka · 7th August 2018, 02:04

I don't buy the "it's only math" as an argument that video compression technology is simple and should not be patentable.

Everything is obvious in hindsight/to laymen, but to get to that hindsight situation is the hard part. MPEG/VCEG circles brought amazing video technology forward, if you recall how bad the codecs were say in 2004 (and those were already things brought forward by them and those were already great progress above truly stone age tech).

As in many fields and situations, people take all good things for granted, ignore their value and endlessly bitch about some trifling small details they find on them to complain about. (Yes, the neverending rants about licensing and royalty-free/encumberedness broken record, I consider that unimportant in the overall scope of video compression progress - to be clear.)

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mandarinka Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 729	I don't buy the "it's only math" as an argument that video compression technology is simple and should not be patentable. Everything is obvious in hindsight/to laymen, but to get to that hindsight situation is the hard part. MPEG/VCEG circles brought amazing video technology forward, if you recall how bad the codecs were say in 2004 (and those were already things brought forward by them and those were already great progress above truly stone age tech). As in many fields and situations, people take all good things for granted, ignore their value and endlessly bitch about some trifling small details they find on them to complain about. (Yes, the neverending rants about licensing and royalty-free/encumberedness broken record, I consider that unimportant in the overall scope of video compression progress - to be clear.) Last edited by mandarinka; 7th August 2018 at 02:10.