Five years ago this week… Broadcom appeared to be filing a suit with the US International Trade Commission against MediaTek, Sigma Designs and LG, claiming that all three were breaching its patents in video decoding. It seemed as though Broadcom had forgotten lessons from its run-ins with Qualcomm, when Qualcomm filed basic H.264 patents against it and was ridiculed out of court for its trouble. The newer IP controversy had led Broadcom to block the import of competing chips linked to video streaming – a rather Trumpian move, just months after the President’s inauguration. — We are so tired of headlines basking in delusions of superior wisdom about Netflix not ruling out the possibility of advertising as a supplementary…