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Didn't H.264 become free forever on the Web due to fear of competition from WebM? Doesn't sound like a total loss.

Encoders and decoders have to pay royalties. But MPEG-LA says they're not going to charge more (legally questionable due to exhaustion) fees beyond that.

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