Hadamard

Actually it is far from hard. Most of the MPEG-LA money comes from embedded devices. Strange enough that GooGuys didn't think enough. The web is - alas - nothing. All mobile content created today is h.264. Sony, Nokia, Samsung, LG (Marvell, Quallcomm, Samsung, Nvidia) will not be so quichk to dump H.264. YouTube of pure WebM? Transcoding all H.264 to WebM? Great - GooFool will have to pay MPEG-LA just as they pay today!!! Decoder and encode fees are equal to the price of a full CoDec. Free streaming like YouTube is free anyway. Till you'll have WebM acceleration for encoding on mobile phones MVC H.264 will dominate anyway (3D) where WebM isn't even thinking of what should be done. It seems that the most likely result (instead of saving FireFox, which is losing share) will be Chrome losing share for Maxthon (100% free with H.264 and HTML5), IE9 and Safari... Good job Goofools, you have just turned into a Steve Jobs.

History tends to repeat itself. What will happen when MPEG-LA will establish a WebM Pool of Patents as they did with VC-1, making sure EVERYBODY knows the royalties for WebM will be at least as high as for H.264 FOR LICENSEES. For users infringing H.264 patents there will be no cap, of course. Google will never shield any WebM user, just as Micro$oft did not with VC-1. And mind you, WebM includes obvious (like the Intra mode coding) infringing of H.264 patents.