QDesign
to Provide Advanced Scalable Audio Technology to InterTrust and MetaTrust-Certified
Audio Applications
InterTrust
and QDesign to combine Digital Rights Management and audio technology
for a secure, scalable music solution that supports rights-managed content
for download and streaming
February 14, 2000, Santa Clara, CA and Vancouver, BC
- - InterTrust Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: ITRU), the MetaTrust
Utility™, and QDesign Corporation, a leading provider of digital audio
compression technologies, today announced a technology partnership for
the use of QDesign’s audio codec technology in MetaTrust-Certified™ audio
applications. The partnership is aimed at developing a digital rights
management (DRM) enabled, scalable audio format for digital streaming
applications. Further, QDesign and InterTrust will work together to integrate
DRM technology into the Windows version of the recently released MVP audio/video
player, a cross-platform (for MacOS and Windows) software application
for recording and playback of digital music and videos.
Adding the QDesign high quality, scalable audio codec to the growing list
of DRM-enabled audio formats (MP3, AAC, and others) will result in more
digital music commerce options for music player companies, content owners
and consumers. Music player companies will have more DRM-enabled development
options. Content owners will have extensive control over how their music
content is promoted, licensed, and sold without the need to re-purpose
content each time new distribution and business models are introduced.
Consumers will have greater choice in DRM-enabled music players as InterTrust
and QDesign work to integrate DRM into the audio capabilities of the MVP
application, with the goal of becoming a MetaTrust-Certified audio application.
The QDesign Music codec is optimized to produce high quality audio at
data rates as low as 1 kByte per second. The combination of scalability
and quality of the latest QDesign audio technology allows a single encoded
source file to serve a broad range of music products and services, from
music download to personalized streaming Internet radio. The “on-the-fly”
scalability allows QDesign encoded audio to automatically fit to available
storage (i.e., up to 5 times more audio than standard MP3 files on portable
music players) as well as dynamically adapt to available bandwidth for
Internet streaming.
“InterTrust provides the most comprehensive DRM technology for all digital
content types,” said Richard J. Beaton, president, QDesign Corporation.
“By integrating InterTrust DRM with the scalability of the QDesign audio
technology, we are providing content owners with the most robust system
for creating, promoting, and delivering digital music around e-commerce.”
"InterTrust seeks to provide the broadest selection of codec technology
support for audio and video possible," said Talal Shamoon, senior vice
president, Media, InterTrust Technologies Corporation. "The QDesign
audio codec technology offers a level of scalability quality and control
that elegantly complements the InterTrust DRM platform. The combination
of technologies presents content owners and consumers an innovative array
of options for new music products and services, using existing and emerging
delivery mechanisms."
About QDesign
From the release of the world's first real-time MP2 audio compression
software in 1996 to the introduction of its own MP3 and QDesign Music
technologies, QDesign has established itself as the leading provider of
the most advanced audio compression solutions in the broadcast, new media
and Internet delivery markets. Since the inclusion of the QDesign Music
Codec in Apple QuickTime 3 as the audio compression solution for Internet
streaming, multimedia authoring and digital music, QDesign has received
numerous industry accolades for delivering the best web audio technology.
Last Fall, the company introduced digital music to the masses with "MVP",
the first software application for creating and managing the most complete
range of music and video formats on both Mac OS and Windows platforms.
Today, QDesign's audio technologies appear in hardware processors, digital
audio production, automation and distribution systems as well as consumer
multimedia software.
QDesign is a founding member of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI),
the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) organization for
developing solutions to protect content owners rights for managing access
and distribution of their content.
For more information:
QDesign Corporation
media@qdesign.com
InterTrust Digital Rights Management
Digital rights management (DRM) technologies protect and manage rights
and interests in digital information. InterTrust’s DRM platform provides
a common foundation for distributed e-commerce digital information and
event management. In the content industry, this allows authors, publishers,
enterprises, governments, users and others to specify, as appropriate,
rules regarding the use of digital information, and the consequences resulting
from such use. InterTrust® technology is designed to protect digital information,
apply rules persistently after information is distributed, and automate
many e-commerce processes related to content use. InterTrust’s DRM platform
is general purpose and manages most media and content types, including
music, publications, business information, video, games, software, and
images. InterTrust DRM is enhanced by its use in the MetaTrust Utility,
a non-discriminatory, policy neutral, global environment for digital commerce.
InterTrust Technologies Corporation
InterTrust Technologies Corporation is the leading developer of distributed
digital rights management (DRM) technology. InterTrust has developed a
general purpose DRM platform that serves as a foundation for providers
of digital information, technology, and commerce services. InterTrust
licenses its DRM platform as software and tools to partners. Collectively,
these partners offer digital commerce services and applications that form
a global commerce system branded as the "MetaTrust Utility." InterTrust
serves as the neutral administrator of the MetaTrust environment.
For more information:
Joseph Jennings
InterTrust Technologies Corporation, 408-855-0201
jjennings@intertrust.com
Leigh Anne Varney
Varney Business Communication, 415-387-7250
la@varneybusiness.com
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The statements contained in this release that are not purely historical
are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the
Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, including statements regarding InterTrust's
expectations, beliefs, hopes, intentions or strategies regarding the future.
All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon
information available to InterTrust as of the date hereof, and InterTrust
assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. Actual
results could differ materially from current expectations. Factors that
could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited
to, the factors and risks discussed in InterTrust's reports filed from
time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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