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The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired
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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2026
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This had me going down the rabbit hole of the other compression algorithm that has had my interest for a long time: Arithmetic coding.
It looks like all the patents on that have expired... sooo, original bzip resurrection when?