Brightcove Granted Broad Patent For Online Video

Why would they issue such a broad patent? They've essentially patented video content distribution. What are providers like YouTube, Vidyard, Vimeo, Ooyala, 23Video, etc. going to do?

Software patent law needs to give it's head a shake. This is going to cause nothing but grief for the semi-competitive landscape.

I'm doubtful that a 27,000 word patent can be accurately described in a three paragraph blurb.

1 year ago they did 400,000 vids/month, now it's 700,0000,000 vids/month? Is that a typo?

Yeah, they just posted a correction, it's up from 400 million/month.

In all fairness, Brightcove was first on a lot of this stuff. Hard to believe they're 7 years old, older than Youtube.

The content distribution model was what they did from the start, too.

(Former BCer)

That was a low-class downvote....