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Thank you Germany for forcing Netflix, and all of their users, to waste more electricity and exarcabate global warming.

• pelasaco 3y ago
  don't say it loud, otherwise people will try to glue themselves on your TV
• freejazz 3y ago
  I'm sorry, but why is it that Netflix cannot license technology that it uses? It seems absurd to blame Germany for Netflix's decision to use this technology without licensing it...
  • jauntywundrkind 3y ago
    The claim is not from the mpeg-la patent pool that is supposed to cover h265/hevc. It's an outside claim. Has anyone paid Broadcom for this patent claim yet? Who? Where has this claim been made before? This is part of what's so vicious & ugly about patents. Try as you might to avoid patents, there is a multi-decade window where some giant legion of lawyers can jump out of the bushes & make huge claims against you. Business as usual can be severely disrupted at the drip of a hat to some claim no one saw coming, with no precedent.
    • freejazz 3y ago
      Well, I don't agree that it's something no one saw coming. Netflix has its own giant legion of lawyers it pays to review patents and manage Netflix's liabilities in that regard. Patents are all publicly disclosed, so I don't agree with your use of "no precedent" or the notion that it was a surprise to Netflix.
• nebalee 3y ago
  Why blame Germany? Blame the USA! After all, Broadcom is a US company.