Appropriately following our explainer on why HTML5 won’t save online pharmacy prescription the internet (yet) and the embedded discussion about video codecs and the future of internet video, MPEG LA—who licenses the h.264 codec—has announced they’re going to continue H.264′s royalty freeness for free internet video through 2016. Which sounds like it melts some of Mozilla’s core objections to anointing h.264 the internet video standard, but shnope.
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H.264 Will prescription pills online Stay Royalty-Free for Free Internet Video Through 2016 (But Don’t Clap Yet) [Video]