Yeah, but that's like someone paying for an all-you-can-eat buffet and then smuggling in a few bus loads of hungry people. Just because you paid for it doesn't mean it's what the people you bought it from were intending.
They're licensing per user - just that MPEG-LA has a upper bound of what to pay annually (currently $6.5 million). That's something that Cisco can probably better manage than not being able to move forward with their plans.
Question is if MPEG-LA closes that loop hole the next time they revisit licensing payments (but then, how? Microsoft and Apple profit from the same provisions, for example).
