[M4IF Discuss] Article in Salon.com

[Kevin Marks]

On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 02:53 PM, Rob Koenen wrote:
> "a 2 cents an hour charge that either users or manufacturers
>  of the software would have to come up with. "
>   User will _not_ be charged under the proposed scheme.

Rob, that is sophistry.
The current scheme charges content vendors when revenue is being 
generated. This means someone is being charged for it. Either the 
viewers (directly or indirectly) or the content vendors. Either of these 
can reasonably be termed 'users' of MPEG4.