There are about 1000 patents covering MPEG. Just the MPEG2 list runs 36 pages. B...

		jws on Jan 25, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Cases where software patents have prevente... There are about 1000 patents covering MPEG. Just the MPEG2 list runs 36 pages. But maybe YouTube could be saving 5% of their bandwidth bills if arithmetic coding weren't patented.

Or at least if the patents weren't enforced.