Comment by magicalist

9 years ago

> VP8 was patent encumbered all over the place

Was it? Can you name a single patent? MPEG-LA never did.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/googl...

> MPEG-LA never did

The never do. It's like the mob: "pay us or you'll be in trouble". You can either pay the MPEGLA (and by the way, you will never know who inside the MPEGLA decided to sue you), or face consequences (and discover which patents are supposedly infringed)