You have big friends with the Xiph codecs. Almost all the big game publishers ship Speex, Vorbis, FLAC, and Theora. Epic, EA, Microsoft, etc. The adoption in th

You have big friends with the Xiph codecs. Almost all the big game publishers ship Speex, Vorbis, FLAC, and Theora. Epic, EA, Microsoft, etc. The adoption in that market is ridiculously high. That's a lot of cash on the table for patent trolls to attack, but you don't have to stop there. Google and Mozilla both ship Theora and Vorbis. Vorbis ships in silicon in lots of the non-Apple music devices. Sure, the market of people using MPEG technologies is larger, but the market of people using Xiph codecs is by no means small. Also, MPEG-LA does not indemnify from other patents. This is a common misconception. A patent owner is not going to sue MPEG-LA. They are going to sue Microsoft, Google, Apple, and other people with big bank accounts. Those companies may in turn sue MPEG-LA, but there is no incentive to sue MPEG-LA directly, just as their is no incentive to sue the Xiph.org Foundation directly. EDIT: I didn't mean to say that all of them ship every codec. But all those listed do ship (or have in the recent past) one or more of the Xiph set.