An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs
Judy DeMocker,
Mozilla Blog,
Jul 11, 2018
I created the term 'techpayer' on Twitter a few days ago to convey the idea of costs we all pay for necessary technology that are s inevitable and unavoidable as taxes. And a lot less democratic. This article describes a case in point, the royalties charged for the video codec (coder/decoder) we all use to watch, say, YouTube. In this article Mozilla is promoting a roylty-free alternative, AV1 . It's worth spending some time thinking about these issues.
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