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Re:AV1 codec ecosystem update by quink on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @08:12AM (#20154696)
And if it's not a lie, and they're going to find some judge in East Texas who'll see infer some infringement among one some detail in one of the bazillion patents in the pool, you're screwed.

Patent cases of this sort seem to broadly favour the litigant so why stir the hornet's nest.

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Re:AV1 codec ecosystem update by sjwright on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:16PM (#20161183)
It wouldn’t be a patent case, it would be a tort. Either you win and the problem goes away, or you lose and you know which patent you need to rewrite around.

For the cost of some legal fees, a loss seems like a great value.

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