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| | Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | MP3 watch out, here comes VP3 |
 | | While this may not seem like such a big deal, in actuality, whoever controls the codecs for audio and video on the web actually wields a tremendous amount of power over how music and movies will be distributed. |
 | | Some video game publishers have begun using Vorbis as the audio format for their games (Fraunhofer charges $2,500 for game publishers to use MP3), and the BBC is testing the use of streaming Vorbis for online webcasts of The Archers and other programming. |
 | | Rather, the true significance of the effort of this group of volunteers to create free and open standards for online audio and video may be the dashing of Microsoft's, or any other corporation's, dreams of a multimedia monopoly. |
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