AV1's open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec

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26 pointsjoshcartme4 comments

This is a very one sided take, to the point of being a press release from what are effectively professional scam artists and my respect for Ars Technica reporting has been decreased a notch for posting this.

Software patents suck. :/

Yup software patents are terribly bad, we need to abolish them https://endsoftwarepatents.org/

Yeah I'm curious to see how this turns out, because I think part of the appeal of AV1 was how it's unencumbered by them

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