<p> Livestation has been developed by <a href="http://www.skinkers.com" target="_blank">Skinkers</a>, a privately funded technology company based in London. </p> <p> Livestation is based on advanced peer-to-peer technology, originally developed by Microsoft Research. Skinkers acquired the full intellectual property for the technology through a pioneering <a href="../../news/11">technology for equity</a> agreement, where Microsoft acquired a minority equity stake in Skinkers. </p> <p> From the results of this research, Skinkers has developed the Live Delivery Network&trade;, an enterprise-class peer-to-peer distribution architecture. Livestation is the first product based on this platform. </p> <p> The core Livestation distribution technology is independent of any particular audio or video encoding or compression scheme. </p> technology 10 5 technology 2008-08-27T15:45:02Z