Clickbait bullshit… All the zillions of encoder/decoder programs that are available are not going to suddenly go anywhere, and meanwhile, the patents for MP3 are all expiring this year.

There is no "conspiracy here", just basic "CGI 101". Faces are the hardest part of a human to animate by CGI. The human brain expects to see a general shape for a man's face that is different than what is expected for a woman. Animators learned this years ago, it's why early CGI characters look "creepy" - the viewer's…