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@zladuric@mastodon.technology @cipper Yes, the MPEG LA is mainly to blame for assembling pools of patent to extract royalties on implementations of H264 and H265, even opensource ones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA#H.264/MPEG-4_AVC_licensors

Until the patents expire, the only option is using royalty-free formats such as VP8 / VP9 / AV1.