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AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

This is so sad, and bad, and tragic :(

These central standards should be a common good. Pay out the patents with a fair price and move them into the public good. I imagine they already made more than enough money through these patents through HEVC.