Still widely used
Standard DVD video disks are encoded with MPEG-2, so anyone wanting to create them on Linux is happier there are no patent restrictions now. Not that it stopped us before. Even if mainstream Linux distributions omitted patent-encumbered codecs, they were easy install from alternate repositories.
Btw. Ffmpeg is not the only free MPEG-2 encoder implementation, there is also mencoder, and possibly others.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
