Posts Tagged ‘ content delivery networks ’

Limelight Loses Patent Infringement Suit With Akamai

Feb 29th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: General, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting Networks

Akamai Technologies, which provides technology for the distribution of digital media like podcasts, announced that a jury returned a verdict today in its lawsuit against Limelight Networks. The judgement found that Limelight was infringing on Akamai’s content delivery patent. As a result, the jury awarded Akamai a staggering $45,526,946 in damages, plus interest.
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NBC To Use P2P To Distribute Internet TV

Feb 27th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, General, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

NBC & Pando Networks, a provider of P2P content delivery services, announced today that Pando will be providing video delivery services for the NBC Direct service.
While it’s interesting to see a mainstream network using P2P to distribute video, it looks like NBC Direct is going to be another misbegotten proprietary Internet television offering. It requires [...]

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