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Re:It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard by shmerl on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @08:25PM (#4508475)
That's the whole point. They have no proof to show, because really those codecs are not violating any patents. But they want to create fear to ban competition.
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Re:It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard by yuhong on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @12:21AM (#4509128)
In fact: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/09/its-opus-it-rocks-and-now-...
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Re:It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard by shmerl on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @12:25AM (#4509139)
The citation above was about video codecs, FUD about which is spread by MPEG-LA, who never showed any patents as a proof.

Opus is another story, since Qualcomm and Huawei listed supposedly violated patents, so Opus creators were able to review them and to confirm that those claims are bogus.

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Re:It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard by nullc on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @02:12AM (#4509367)
Right. This is the advantage of the IETF's patent policy, and it's one of the reasons we wanted to do this work in the context of the IETF.
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