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

That would be wierd.

GIF all over again. 1986, that gives them roughly 4 years to battle it out in court before the patent becomes nullified anyway. 20 years on a patent, right? I'm pretty sure thought may be wrong.

More reason to start pushing PNG's.

Jpeg2 is coming out soon too. That may be part of the reason behind this

what will jpeg2 be like?

.jpg2 and what kind of features

Good luck - they will burn like GIF patent holders

hah - reminds me of the clowns who tried to sue ISP's for hyperlinks.

what about the ones that tried to charge for hypertext clicking

The best comment from /. (http://slashdot.org) on the topic (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/18/157217&mode=thread&tid=155) that can be found here (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=36285&cid=3909866).


(* I don't think I can afford to have a lien on my porn collection. *)

Send it all back to Forgent. Email a few to each employee.

(begin letter)

Dear Forgent Employee,

Attached is some of my porn collection. I am returning it to your company because I inadvertantly used your patented JPEG format.

The rest is still to follow. My printer is slow. Playmate Debby especially requires a lot of ink because of her unorthodox techniques and tools, as you can clearly see in image #4057.

Thank You for your patience and understanding,

[Slashdot User]"

(end letter)


:D.... That'll teach em'

Originally posted by DizixCom
GIF all over again. 1986, that gives them roughly 4 years to battle it out in court before the patent becomes nullified anyway. 20 years on a patent, right? I'm pretty sure thought may be wrong.

More reason to start pushing PNG's.

I also think that it is only 20 yrs.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. A while back, Hasbro announced it
was going to start taking action against copyright infringements of
games made by Atari (which Hasbro bought.) This meant that Hasbro was
going to begin suing those who made Pac-Man, Breakout/Pong, Asteroids,
Frogger, etc. clones. This caused quite a scare in the game developing
community of which I am a part of, but I have yet to see any real
result of Hasbro's deciscion. Clones of lassic games have not seemed
to decrease, and I have not seen any reports of Hasbro actually taking
muh action. (Exept maybe against some of the companies doing it
commercially.)

JPEG images are so widely used, it would be nearly impossible for a
company to control the use of them. It's just like MP3s, the
publishers are trying, but people are still sharing MP3s. I don't
think JPEG controlling will be as big as MP3 controlling at all.. so I
really wouldn't worry.