Every aspect of media delivery has a patent associated with it. Adaptive bitrate streaming? Patented. Segmented delivery of a stream? Patented. Picking a qualit

Every aspect of media delivery has a patent associated with it. Adaptive bitrate streaming? Patented. Segmented delivery of a stream? Patented. Picking a quality from a drop down? Patented. One machine passing video to another? Patented. If you run a service which shifts video/audio in any decent scale, then companies like Xperi, Kudelski and many patent trolls, will come out of the woodwork and make your legal team work overtime.