Chiariglione: A crisis, the causes and a solution

It's really quite remarkable. He calls the demise of MPEG LA 'tragic' right after calling HEVC 'unusable', but everything else he says admits his blinkers.

He doesn't appear to understand that "Patent holders who allow use of their patents get hefty royalties" implies by the simple law of pricing reduced usage of his codec; he doesn't appear to realise that uses where payment is not possible might even *exist*, though they are obvious to anyone with eyes; he gives royalty-free codecs quotation marks, as if the term is so unusual his readers might not know what it meant; he considers it "obvious" that the patent-free codecs he was considering would be intentionally crippled but from his language appears to consider people who want to use such codecs the enemy ('the "proprietary" threat'); he repeatedly claims to have foreseen dangers coming and devised strategies to counter them but then describes the way they failed with the wide-eyed astonishment of a child, as if they were utterly unforeseeable (is it *hard* to predict that if there are entities who don't cooperate with you who claim on everything you do, that if you do more things that are intentionally worse, that those entities will claim on those as well, even if you'd like them not to?).

He knows what's gone wrong, but he doesn't seem to realise that the way he was thinking, of codecs as something that must be financialized and have rent extracted from them, was the root of the problem. If you financialize them, don't be surprised if ever more middlemen come along to extract ever more rent, and don't be surprised if some of them don't want to cooperate with you (and that they get greedy enough that they end up killing your work, like a parasitic vine killing the host: after all, *they* didn't put in any work other than writing some intentionally vague and meaningless crap and submitting it to the patent office).