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>ATT, Motorola, Nokia, and Microsoft refused to join MPEG-LA and made their own 500 patent pool covering HEVC and charge $2/device + 0.5% of revenue from streaming.

Not true. You are referring to early HEVC Advance terms purposed which never happened.

>I wonder if it is possible to encode HEVC without using this technique and it was just that Netflix's encoders used it,

Probably not given how board that patent seems to imply. To the point I would guess even AV1 may infringe on it.