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> They will then file a number of lawsuits in a shotgun fashion, perhaps a few hundred, half of which will be against Google, and the other half against various
by haberman 16y ago
> They will then file a number of lawsuits in a shotgun fashion, perhaps a few hundred, half of which will be against Google, and the other half against various companies using WebM
And then we'll finally get to see what Google has up their sleeve, because they're not dumb and surely saw this coming.
Maybe there will be a counter-suit, because h.264 violates some of Google's patents.
- Symmetry 16y agoCould the MPEG-LA be sued if Google has patents that cover h.264? I'm not sure it could and if so we'd see a divergence between the interests of the MPEG-LA (who need to maintain control) and the groups contributing patents to them (who are afraid of a patent war).
- rmc 16y agoI believe the MPEG-LA has a patent pool, where all companies that have patents on it pool them together. They don't sue anyone who's in the pool and they aren't sued by anyone in that pool. If this is the case, then google could sue MPEG-LA users, but they might get sued themselves.