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Stop Big Tech From Stifling Competition
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The Justice Department has fired a shot across Big Tech’s bow. In a recent speech, Dina Kallay, a deputy assistant attorney general in the department’s antitrust division, criticized Big Tech for using supposedly “free” patent-licensing initiatives to poach smaller competitors’ technologies.
Her remarks come at a pivotal moment. The Alliance for Open Media — a consortium led by Amazon, Meta, Google, and other tech giants — just announced a new video-streaming format called AV2 that could soon be embedded in televisions and tablets. The new format is the successor to its previous video technology, AV1.
The group claims the technology will be “royalty-free.” But such promises often come with strings attached.
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