Replies to post #6390 on Max Sound Corporation (MAXD)

[Urbanlegend]

It's an interesting argument you adopt.

While a short version will no doubt leave out crucial aspects to some extent -- the challenge of video distribution -- or any other data distribution that is bulky -- is monetizing it. Distributors pay and users pay to middlers for bandwidth. But a general tendancy has been to make the technology itself free so that use is encouraged with carrier costs billed to users and with distributors profiting through licensing content and various forms of advertising. It's a conventional model not unlike how TV has always been distributed, and actually not unlike how all content since the printing press has been distributed. (The paper costs of newspapers aren't covered by the cost of a newspaper for instance).

There is no doubt in my mind that if it can be established that proprietary "ODT technology" has been incorporated in to tech which has been made freely available when there should have been a licensing cost there's money there in damages.

But I do doubt that the internet as we know it can function with license payments for streaming/compression by users, without some new tech advantage giving value. The pipes just aren't built that way. And the whole point of the ODT allegation is that it is now in common use as part of mainstream standards and not new.