There doesn't need to be control taken; instead, the government could just buy the patents to the best codecs and open them up. Software infrastructure, if you

There doesn't need to be control taken; instead, the government could just buy the patents to the best codecs and open them up. Software infrastructure, if you will. It's sad and ironic that Google is doing this more effectively than We The People, it least in cases where their interests are aligned with the commons.