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rowanG077
7 months ago
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Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG
Software patents aren't an issue in most of the world. Codecs however are used all over the world. No one is going to use a codec that is illegal to use in the US and EU.
astrange
7 months ago
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EU would be one of the places that doesn't have software patents, which is why VLC is based there.
rowanG077
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It's not that simple. Software patents exists in the EU, the requirements are much more strict though. For example Netflix was ordered to cease their use of H265 in germany:
https://www.nexttv.com/news/achtung-baby-netflix-loses-paten...
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