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iujyhfgtrtgyhju on March 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: US Department of Justice investigating MPEG LA

It's a complex and secret process - but MSFT and Apple are not paying $10 for each copy of windows/iOS that includes an H264 player!

kenjackson on March 4, 2011 | [–]

There's a royalty cap. I believe MSFT is paying the maximum royalty cap for H264. And Apple only has one patent in the patent pool of 1000+ patents.

tomsaffell on March 4, 2011 | [–]

$10? If I understand the license[1] right - it's more like $0.10 to $0.20.

[1] - http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_TermsS...

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