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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Via LA, the patent pool administrator for H.264/AVC, restructured its streaming license fees earlier this year, replacing a flat $100,000 annual cap with a tiered system.
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