JPEG patent - uh oh!
 

While you are all debating your TGP/TGP2/TGP3 etc.. check this out:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/busin...peg020829.html

its all fun and games until Gore sues us all for using his Internet invention :thumbsup

they collected SHIT I read the story in fast company

another dreamer that hopes to make money sitting on his ass FUCK HIM

the guy who had claims for the hyperlink was kicked out of court this guy will be the same

They're not going after end users anyways. so it hardly effects us. Maybe a price rise in digital hardware and graphics software, but that's about it.

Unless of course, you happen to own Adobe or Sony.

I'm about to start licensing AIR as I have the patent for it. Yes, I will after I get off this chair.

that bs i invented AIR! you'll be hearing from my lawyer!

i invented gay porn. everyone with a gay site must turn it over to me now.

You're fucked, I patented HAIR and as you're on a cHAIR for profit, you have to pay me my dues on a blatant copyright violation...

this statement rocks


"You can't swing a dead cat without hitting somebody who has a JPEG patent claim," says Lisa Walker, executive director of the International Imaging Industry Association, a Harrison, N.Y.-based industry coalition favoring open standards for image technologies.

I doubt anything will come of it. Too bad ABC news there is claiming SONY is playing ball tho.

Well I didn't read the article but this has happened before with other image formats... If I remember correct, Compuserve created the .GIF format and many graphics programs do not support it because there's a license cost involved. JPEG is pretty old technology now -- it could be replaced pretty quickly if there was a license problem.

Anyway, congrats to whoever fixed GFY -- all last week the shit was crashing my Opera browser...

heheheh , i was just about to quote that one too

its either bullshit or sony just has too much money to throw away

Hmmmm. Hopefully same practical effect as UNISYS' ownership claims on the .gif format.

old news...