open formats is the way to go. Patents seems more and more like a scam

The patents have expired everywhere except USA, Brazil and Malaysia.

This is a blatant money grab before they expire everywhere.

quietly

Stop putting "quietly" in your fucking headlines, you hacks. This wasn't "quiet", it was very publicly announced.

Wait, is Stallman right again?

AGAIN?

If I come up with a concept in philosophy can I patent it and charge money when people use it in their philosophy? Fees for codecs operate on this plane of backwardness. Patents in and of themselves are stupid enough, but the capacity for stupidity within patenting knows no bounds apparently.

Last attempt to squeeze some money before these formats are abandoned in favor of competition, I guess.

The entire notion of ‘Intellectual Property’ is a cancer on society.

Information and ideas intrinsically accrue value the more they’re known and used, and the incentives provided around their collation and attribution should embody that, not punish them with imaginary locks that provide ownership.

Here's why it doesn't matter:

"AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It was developed as a successor to VP9 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia),[3] a consortium founded in 2015 that includes semiconductor firms, video on demand providers, video content producers, software development companies and web browser vendors."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1

tiny bit clickbait, small companies are still at $100,000 unchanged

![Classification of companies as Nascent/Small based on units of content provided and type of content delivery:

not that that should exist, either

H.264 came out in 2003. Shouldn't the patents associated with it have expired by now? 23 years is more than 20 years from the filing date or else the codec's release itself is prior art. The 17 years from issuance rule ended in 1995. I don't think they can have any Lemelson style submarine patents that are still valid.

We need a "right of retrieval" where,once encoded, it must be free to decode and play back. If we're going to allow proprietary media, all the prices should be clear and up front. No charging on the back end after everyone has already encoded their baby vids to avc; no changing prices after the fact.

Thing that bothers me is these guys are claiming to have patents over AV1.

The whole point of av1 is it supposed to be free of this bullshit.

Man I can't wait to upgrade my device/GPU with AV1 hardware support

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Legally VP8 is beginning to look like the go-to format for video..

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I’m pretty sure most of the H.264 patents expired or are set to expire next year. Maybe it’s one last cash grab before the best codec ever made is liberated