You could have said exactly the same thing about VP9. Tons of FUD over its patent status, but nothing stopped its adoption. You could say exactly the same thin

You could have said exactly the same thing about VP9. Tons of FUD over its patent status, but nothing stopped its adoption. You could say exactly the same thing about any new codec before it's widely adopted. As I said in my post, AV1 is more strongly protected than previous codecs because anyone who sues over AV1 can't use it themselves, so only pure patent trolls can sue over AV1. Anyway this is only a short-term concern. Probably as soon as this year Google, Netflix and others will start deploying AV1 and we'll see what happens.