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[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

~~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.~~

[–] __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're thinking of jpeg2000

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Oops. I'd somehow missed that there was now a third kind of JPEG.