Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

This is wrong, please get a clue about patents. It is not illegal to implement a patented technique, in free or proprietary software, anywhere in the world.

The right conferred by the patent grant is, in the language of the statute and of the grant itself, “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling” the invention in the United States or “importing” the invention into the United States. What is granted is not the right to make, use, offer for sale, sell or import, but the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing the invention. Once a patent is issued, the patentee must enforce the patent without aid of the USPTO.