Bah, why one a PC anyway

Why do you want to play a video on a PC anyway? I know allot is the challenge of it all but Is that not why we have such nice LCD TVs for? My PS3 will do me just fine for any HD crap.

A daft spin on the story

"So, it appears that today the DMCA has won yet another victory while free open sauce had chalked up yet another sad death"

No, the DMCA has been used in an appropriate way. Google should have had the legal nous and common sense to have contacted CoreCodec before reverse-engineering their product. Instead, they broke the law.

CoreCodec has every right to control the distribution and income from their product. I have no doubt that, as the story implies, CC used the DMCA takedown in order to make Google do what they should have done in the first place.

Open Source doesn't mean "no pay, no rules", and never did.

Go Dirac!

After many of years of development fully opensource video codec Dirac and its first implementation Schrödinger have been available as 1.x release for couple of month already.

And Dirac is designed to be of the same quality level as MPEG4 codecs.

So all who are fed up with proprietary videocodecs and all the mess therein should start using, promoting, pushing, ... etc Dirac and its applications.