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It is technically illegal in most places due to copyright
Wut
They don't pay Royalties to the patent holders. Not really illegal but still interesting. You a extremely unlikely to get sued for using VLC
I assume you're referring to codecs like H.264, which is owned and licensed by Apple. But are you sure using those codecs to play media is illegal? I thought it was only required to pay to encode.
I can't imagine that Firefox is illegally breaking the law too..
Its a grey area
so many questions. what patents? how should they know you use it?
It is a grey area