> The combination, called Via Licencing Alliance (Via LA) creates the largest patent pool administrator in the consumer electronics industry. The increased scal

> The combination, called Via Licencing Alliance (Via LA) creates the largest patent pool administrator in the consumer electronics industry. The increased scale of is expected to provide improved expertise and support for patentholders and licensing customers. The new behemoth is expected to provide increased cruelty & beat downs to consumers & electronics makers. The new behemoth is expected to have it's lawyers knives extra sharped & extracting endless more pounds of flesh from the world. The industry keeps contorting itself into knots to make codec that are free & clear of royalties. And the codec giants inevitably find some way to take these ridiculously hard fought creations & find some kind of claim to make, to drag everyone back to the shittiest depths of murky uncertainty. It's actively obstructing humankind of having digital video as a medium at our disposal.