Looks like Nokia got their way:

http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-trac...m=1142&to=1143

Sad to read such news.Looks like Nokia has growth issues and problems with a management - while right hand goes to the open world, left hand trashes all efforts to the hell.What the hell there should be DRM in my device?

I'm paying money.It is pretty strange to cripple my legal rights for my moneys.And then some people wonders why there is so many pirates.Simple: pirated content is not just free in terms of moneys.It also does not cripples legal rights and does not invades to my privacy.How far this DRM idiocy can go?When pirated content is better than original one, that's a real shame for authors.This shows how far abuse of monopoly power can go in modern world :E.And now they're trying to "fix" this issue by crippling rights and punishing those who is not agree to pay moneys and get their rights crippled.IMHO such methods are suitable for mafia, not for market with fair competition.

What about H.264 and AAC...
1) I'm do not use AAC at all, thanks to efforts to imporve it.There is too many flavours.AAC LC, AAC HE, AAC Plus... and some other flavours I can't remember.Now, what about compatibility?All software and devices supporting AAC can surely play AAC LC, but it's ineffective and loses to OGG in "bitrate vs quality" competition without any chances.And OGG plays EVERYWHERE.Each device or program capable playing OGG will play it.With AAC Plus or HE this is not so true.You'll have headache checking if target device/profram can play it.And you have to pay patent royalties for AAC AFAIK.In short, AAC is quite crappy "standard" which costs something to end user.

2) H.264... it's state of art, but still heavily patented.And it is we are, the users who pays for all this patent crap.Theora and OGG are free in both terms of source code availability AND lack of royalty fees.So, adding ogg or theora costs nothing.But adding AAC and H.264 costs some bucks to vendor and hence to end user.In long-term I'm preferring to not depend on "standards" which are prohibiting FAIR competition.When something is declared standard and others must support it, it is not seems to be fair competition when you must pay to some entity for implementing standard.IMHO sdandards should be free.To set up level.Others have to try to beat it if they're really want to get moneys.Othervice progress will stuck.

konttori, "Now, consider that you choose mp3 now. You pay the price and you are safe."

No, you're never ever safe.

Paying money to a software patent troll doesn't prevent another patent troll to sue you and your users with another patent related to MP3 which isn't in the pool you paid for.

http://trolltracker.blogspot.com/

Assuming Nokia have a licence to use mp3 from the Frauenhofer institute, if they are then sued for a patent not covered by those held by Frauenhofer (is this possible, or is the Frauenhofer patent and licence for the entire mp3 process?) they can sue Frauenhofer. Or probably more likely is that as so many large companies have licensed mp3, they just club together and bury/buy off the new patent holder.