Exactly. All they've said is "we promise we won't charge you for sending bits of h.264-encoded data across a wire". It's not clear that they legally could cha

Exactly. All they've said is "we promise we won't charge you for sending bits of h.264-encoded data across a wire". It's not clear that they legally could charge for that even if they wanted do! And yet they've fooled vast numbers of people into thinking that h.264 is free-of-charge as a result. It's the most impressive piece of anti-FUD I've ever seen, sadly.