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Old 6th April 2019, 23:16   #15  |  Link
dapperdan
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Google and the rest of AOM don't want to use their IP. If it was easy to know what they claimed ownership of, they would have avoided it. They've already spent literally millions on trying to avoid using unlicensed IP by accident

Changing AV1 now has a definite monetary cost. If it didn't, there would be no point announcing the patents because Google would just remove them. So they are by your own idiosyncratic definition, patent trolls. Google et all are now faced with trading off the cost of fighting or settling this against the cost to redo the standard to work around the patents.

Video codec patents are broken. People at the top of MPEG seems to have accepted this, so it's hardly just the crazy hippies holding this view. It's people actual job to write vague patents, the vaguer the patent the better they are doing their job and the more likely their company will make money. This is not something to celebrate.
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