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SAN FRANCISCO: Nov 27, 2003 (PNS) - Jon Lech Johansen, 19, a young Norwegian has created a program called QTFairUse which circumvents Apple Computer's ITunes' anti-copying program MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding. Johansen is also known as DVD Jon because when he was 15 he developed DeCSS to view movies on Linux-based computers without DVD-viewing software and posting on the internet in 1999. DVD Copy Control Association is suing him again. Last January 7 he was acquitted by court on other hacking charges. The End.

MPEG-4 backers protest Microsoft license By Stefanie Olsen Special to ZDNet News January 10, 2003, 6:52 AM PT Proponents of MPEG-4 are decrying Microsoft's new licensing fees for rival technology, saying that the pricing poses unfair competition and threatens consumer choice. In a first-ever move for Microsoft, it set pricing this week for licensing of its audio and video compression technology, or codecs, for use on non-Windows operating systems. The company says it will charge 10 cents per decoder, 20 cents per encoder, and 25 cents for both. In comparison, MPEG LA--a consortium of companies holding patents attached to implementations...

MPEG zooms in on new video codec By Evan Hansen Staff Writer, CNET News.com October 11, 2002, 4:00 AM PT An international standards team is close to approving a new compression format for digital video, promising improvements as well as a few uncertainties for emerging multimedia technology. Known as H.264, among other designations, the new format is turning heads over claims that it can deliver DVD-quality broadcasts over the Internet using considerably fewer network resources than rivals. The new format was created by the Joint Video Team, a unique partnership between the ISO MPEG and International Telecommunications Union standards groups....

MPEG LA, a group of patent holders governing MPEG-4, on Monday finalized licensing terms for the media delivery standard, bowing to market pressure for manageable royalty rates. "We've met a lot of the concerns that have been expressed in the marketplace," said Lawrence Horn, spokesman for the group, which represents 18 patent holders that have claims on underlying MPEG-4 technology. "We've built a licensing model that's usable in the industry." Under the new terms, owners of Web site content can license the latest video and audio compression format for 25 cents per subscriber or 2 cents per hour, subject...

And XP service pack one in the wild By INQUIRER staff: Friday 12 July 2002, 08:38 US MAGAZINE Infoworld said that Microsoft will announce the next step in its digital media plans codenamed Corona next Monday. The paper says that Microsoft will steer cleer of MPEG 4, a widely accepted industry standard for digital media and instead plump to continue on its own remorseless proprietary path. The "Corona" technology is slated to be at the heart of the next version of its Media Player technology. On Monday, Microsoft will officially name the product and its launch date, as well as...