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Someone once told me that they have amazing lawyers who helped them avoid paying a penny of patent royalties for their MPEG-2 products. [if anyone knows more about this, please reply here or on /.]
I doubt they do for MPEG-4 either - I seem to recall someone noted that in their end-user-license-agreement, there are a few lines detailing:
"Note that blah implements a number of algorithms that have been patented. If you plan to use this software, you must contact the MPEG-LA and purchase a license to use said patented algorithms."
So I doubt they're paying a cent of royalties on their software, unless the EULA has changed.
-h
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