Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases
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  • stormeuh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    More specifically late-stage capitalism. This is a classic example of rent-seeking by a capitalist who has cornered a market.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      1·
      2 months ago

      It’s just capitalism. The fascism we’re seeing is late stage capitalism.