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Crybaby? Care to elaborate because this is what I understand and the ones shitting and pissing their pants seems to be mpeg-la, not google. Like I get hating google as /g/ board culture but in this one instance they were extremely based.
>2010s
>Google: buys On2 and releases VP8 as royalty-free
>"finally, a codec not chained to a bunch of rent-seeking boomers"
>MPEG-LA: seethes uncontrollably
>"anyone got some dusty IP we can mash together to claim VP8 infringes?"
>DOJ: notices the smell of anti-competitive garbage
>"are you forming a patent pool to kill a royalty-free competitor?"
>MPEG-LA: sweating bullets
>"N-n-nooo officer, we’re just protecting innovation!"
>Google: keeps shipping VP8 and WebM anyway because they smell blood in the water
>DOJ: raises eyebros after a few years of back and forth litigations
"So do you actually have ANY proof that VP8 is patent infringing?"
>MPEG-LA: on the verge getting fined billions and billions and billions
>"nah... we'll be good now."
>*repeats the same fucking kike shit with HEVC*
>*adds a per stream royalty fee pissing off every single streaming website on earth*
>"WTF why is only like 10% of the web using HEVC!???"