[FM Discuss] Fwd: [Consortium] Outrageous disaster: Ogg/Vorbis spec taken out of HTML-5

[adam hyde]

> 
> the sad thing is that this untrue claim of ogg/theora/vorbis being 
> proprietary due to patent liability is just a facade: media giants such
> as Apple have bee lobbying the W3C hard against including
> ogg/theora/vorbis in the HTML-5 specification in favour of their own DRM
> capable Quicktime technology. 
> 
> Nokia is just playing cloak-and-daggers to look after upstream channel 
> providers for their handsets IMO.
> 
> it doesn't matter how 'good' the technology is: if it doesn't support
> DRM then standards bodies like the W3C will be shoved and bribed - 
> as they are now - until a DRM capable platform becomes default.
> 
> this may get quite messy. education as to the real root of this problem is 
> important to leverage public concern to pressure the W3C to change their 
> mind. HTML is spoken by 100's of millions of people afterall.
> 


its nasty business alright. Unfortunately however, Theora doesn't seem
to be maintained as well as it was a few years ago. There was mention in
the Slashdot forum about this and its sad but true. Theora is lagging
behind the dev. Still its very useful and we should do what we can to
provide good docs on how to get the most out of it.

adam



> julian
> 
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