> If you charge your visitors for the videos, you’ll have to pay royalty fines, but if you offer the video for free you won’t have to worry about that, ever. Ev

> If you charge your visitors for the videos, you’ll have to pay royalty fines, but if you offer the video for free you won’t have to worry about that, ever. Ever? Yes, ever. The "Yes, ever." link points to to http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachments/226/n-10-02-02.pdf http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachme... , which says (emphasis mine): "MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as Internet Broadcast AVC Video) during the next License term from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2015." I don't see how "until the end of 2015" means "forever." It's also not clear whether this covers free software or just content publishers. In other words, it looks exactly like the prelude to another GIF bait-and-switch.