Is H.264 a legal minefield for video pros? | Deep Tech - CNET News (http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000101-264.html)
^isn't it the same for VC-1?

dude... if professional videographers are selling many copies... this means they have to start paying royalties to MPEG-LA too?

VC-1 to Microsoft?

MPEG-2 to MPEG-2 consortium?

are there no free ones? Theora is awful

You got beat to the punch on this one; another thread was already started today about this same article. Let's keep the discussion under that one roof:

http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/distribution-center/473958-h-264-legal-minefield-video-pros.html