JPEGs are not free: Patent holder pursues IP grab

[Keefe]

Looks like its time to start using .png graphics....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26272.html

[MIK3]

I dont agree with this proclimation for many reasons....why are they even gonna try to attempt to do this, its just gonna piss all net users off, and if u ask me they are making quite a desperate attempt at this patent.  Does this apply stricly for jpegs?  or is it for gifs and bmps as well?  I hope this doesnt doesnt pass for usage and that we wont have to pay for everything that we see on the internet (jpegs).  God first a shameful attempt at mp3's now this...i wouldnt be surpirsed if they made and attempt to have patents which involve payments for messenger severs(trillian, AIM, YIM)and media/audio players(WMP, Winamp, QT )......i do not agree with this article...im sure alot of us wont...

I agree with soccer_stud. They have tried numerous of times to make us pay of the jpegs with no success. Compuserve, the creator of GIFs, did tried it too with no success. We are still using GIFs today with no fees. This is not just with jpegs, MPEG4 is a fee based technology. Apple and others are trying to pursuade the owner to not charged companies that would use players that have Mpeg4 support. This will always be the case. You have a patented file format that the owner doesn't enforce or ask for money for using that format at the beginning and when it is used everywhere then they ask for money. Some people are just snakes.

[vee_ess]

What they are trying to do is immoral and impossible. Just trying to get money any way they can. Plus, if they enforc this, we just convert every JPeg in the world to GIF and then what can they do?  

[MIK3]

be dumb @$$e$ and charge us for those....but its gonna be near impossible to pull this one off, unless their intent is to wipe off Jpegs from the net, but that is highly doubtful, and very foolish if u ask me....id like to see how far this "patent" really does go, but i know it will not be far.

[vee_ess]

Looks like there might be another better method on the way any ways!

wow!!

FELICS eh?

those japs at NEC are really smart, glad my dad was the senior consultant at NEC

but i think jpeg will still go on

This should have the same success as the enforcement of the hyperlinking patent did, none. It's been too long and is far too wide-spread in its use by too many applications and the World Wide Web to have any court impose a fee on its use just because some says they own a patent.

Originally Posted by ldonyo

This should have the same success as the enforcement of the hyperlinking patent did, none. It's been too long and is far too wide-spread in its use by too many applications and the World Wide Web to have any court impose a fee on its use just because some says they own a patent.

Particularly, when the free, unlicsenced, use has been encouraged, until it has become a defacto standard, and then the patent holder jumps up and says" now everyone who ever used it owes me money" . Irregardless of what the court decides, it is unenforcable against the end user.

Originally Posted by vee_ess

What they are trying to do is immoral and impossible. Just trying to get money any way they can. Plus, if they enforc this, we just convert every JPeg in the world to GIF and then what can they do?  

Better not make it a GIF or Compuserve (AOL) will come after you! (they did try this at one point to raise a little more cash, before AOL bought them, but it didn't work)