• hperrin@lemmy.ca
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      3 hours ago

      Because Google didn’t invent it, and Google decides what does and doesn’t get added to the Internet.

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      The compression technique it used was patented, and the licence fee was extortionate. By the time the patent expired, other, royalty-free, techniques were available that outperformed it.