AV1's open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec

AV1's open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec(arstechnica.com)

26 points by joshcartme 107 days ago | 4 comments

This is a very one sided take, to the point of being a press release from what are effectively professional scam artists and my respect for Ars Technica reporting has been decreased a notch for posting this.

throw0101a 107 days ago |

Software patents suck. :/

joshcartme 107 days ago | |

Yeah I'm curious to see how this turns out, because I think part of the appeal of AV1 was how it's unencumbered by them

jrepinc 107 days ago | |

Yup software patents are terribly bad, we need to abolish them https://endsoftwarepatents.org/