Apple sued for patent infringement (iTunes, Quicktime, iPod, etc)

Burst.com which had previously sued Microsoft over patent infringement is now suing Apple Computer. Bob Cringely had covered the twists of the case against MS. In that case MS conveniently lost/deleted 8 weeks of email that were relevant to the case. Unfortunately for MS they did not delete the email from their offsite backup, once this was brought up they settled for $60m. Burst's patents cover streaming content over the internet. Rather than streaming video at a constant bitrate, they stream it in high speed "bursts." This way if there is a connection problem your streaming content can continue without interruption for short periods of time.

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