Google’s homepage goes amazing to celebrate Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 May 2010 11:57:00 EDT.

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Google’s homepage goes amazing to celebrate Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary

Google might be trying to shake up video on the web by releasing the WebM video format and VP8 codec under a royalty-free open-source license, but we’ve already heard the format’s uncomfortably close relationship to H.264 might cause some patent concerns, and the MPEG-LA, which licenses the H.264 patents, doesn’t seem to be sitting still. CEO Larry Horn told All Things Digital that MPEG-LA is looking into forming a patent pool in order to license vendors who want stay clear of any patent disputes while using WebM — the idea would be to avoid any patent liability down the road by simply paying for a license now, especially since Google doesn’t seem to be promising anything when it comes to protection from lawsuits. We’d wager all this means WebM will go from royalty-free to patent-encumbered just as soon as MPEG-LA gets its paperwork in order — the same thing essentially happened to Microsoft when it tried to release the VC-1 format royalty-free — and that means video on the web might soon be right back where it started

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Google’s WebM video format might not be so free after all, says MPEG-LA

We know that DSi of yours is all the rage, but you did hang on to that DS / DS Lite, didn’t you?

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Easy Piano title lets DS Lite users tickle the ivory