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by pilif 1045 days ago
> That's also a good reason for others to drop support until licensing of these patents is clarified.

If that were true, then browsers should drop support for VP8, VP9 and indeed AV1 because the MPEG-LA is claiming ownership of patents covering those codecs.

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The rollout of that stuff took some time precisely for this reason.