It’s never that simple. They have to join AOM if they want to use AV1 and they need to use AV1 if they want to be relevant because all the big players banded t

It’s never that simple. They have to join AOM if they want to use AV1 and they need to use AV1 if they want to be relevant because all the big players banded together and made that unavoidable. That’s the heart of the anticompetitive argument. Most companies don’t exist to sue for patent infringement. They are not patent trolls. The point of competition law is that they should be able to do business without having to go to court with a conglomerate.