3DsoundSurge Press Release: InterTrust and Mediascience Announce Development of MetaTrust-Certified

InterTrust and Mediascience Announce Development of MetaTrust-Certified Sonique Media Player

Mediascience's Acclaimed MP3 Software Player to Use MetaTrust Digital Rights Management From InterTrust

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 15 /PRNewswire/NEWSdesk -- InterTrust Technologies Corporation, the MetaTrust Utility(TM), and Mediascience, Inc., a leading interactive content delivery company, today announced that the two companies had entered into a partnering agreement whereby Mediascience will produce a MetaTrust-Certified(TM) version of its advanced Sonique media player. By becoming MetaTrust-Certified, the new media player will use InterTrust® digital rights management (DRM) technology to protect and manage music content in multiple digital audio formats.

``We are very excited to be working with InterTrust to strengthen our position in this fast-growing market,'' said Al-Riaz Adatia, director of Mediascience. ``As a MetaTrust(TM) partner, we will be able to further enhance our Sonique media player to offer powerful digital rights management capabilities.''

``We are pleased to welcome Mediascience to the growing list of partners who are using InterTrust's digital rights management solution to enable the digital distribution and management of music,'' said Victor Shear, InterTrust chairman and CEO. ``Building on today's announcement of our PowerChord(TM) digital rights management content creation software, partnerships with innovative companies such as Mediascience continue the momentum InterTrust has created in music and other content markets.''

InterTrust Digital Rights Management

InterTrust's sophisticated DRM system is designed to enable music labels and distribution companies to deliver content to consumers with persistent protection, superdistribution, flexible business rules and content usage tracking opportunities. InterTrust's rules-based, distributed DRM persistently manages and enforces rights of all digital commerce participants, for both online and offline transactions. Through the use of the MetaTrust Utility and its DRM capabilities, these participants benefit from a neutral environment for the automation of digital commerce for all forms of content.

Sonique Media Player

Sonique sets a new standard in application design, emphasizing function and style in a radically different experiential user-interface. This unique media player software combines a powerful set of features with eye-popping GUI design in a single, elegant package. The fluid windowless design of Sonique's innovative interface promises to be both intuitive and efficient, while the highly stylized graphic design is sure to capture the imagination of its users.

Mediascience, Inc.

Mediascience is playing an instrumental role in developing the infrastructure for accessing, navigating, playing, and monitoring music over the Web. Sonique has been publicly recognized as the preeminent music player and Mediascience has developed a host of tools and programs for Internet music firms to leverage Sonique to the benefit of their products and services.

InterTrust Technologies Corporation

InterTrust has developed, and is shipping, products and services that enable end-to-end digital rights management solutions delivered by MetaTrust Utility core partners. MetaTrust Utility core partners include Mitsubishi Corporation, National Westminster Bank Plc., Reciprocal, Inc., and Universal Music Group. Data center builder partners include Samsung SDS. Application and Integration builder partners include Computacenter (UK) Ltd., Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc.'s RioPort division, Digital Theater Systems, Fraunhofer IIS, Harris Corporation, Mediascience, Inc., MusicMatch, Inc., PublishOne, Inc., and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).

InterTrust Technologies Corporation, the MetaTrust Utility, provides an interoperable, trusted and secure foundation for electronic commerce. InterTrust software products and services enable the efficient sale, fulfillment and protection of digital content over leading digital media, including the Internet and DVD. InterTrust technology also serves as a foundation for many other forms of trusted commercial interaction. InterTrust's Strategic Technologies and Architectural Research Laboratory (STAR Lab) is a computer laboratory whose primary focus is electronic commerce and digital rights management. Founded in 1990, InterTrust is a privately held company with a staff of over 130, and has offices in Sunnyvale, California, Washington, D.C., and the United Kingdom. The company's website is at http://www.intertrust.com.

NOTE: InterTrust is the registered trademark of InterTrust Technologies Corporation, and the InterTrust logo, MetaTrust, MetaTrust-Certified, MetaTrust Utility, the InterRights Points, and PowerChord are trademarks of InterTrust Technologies Corporation, all of which may or may not be used in certain jurisdictions. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or organizations.

SOURCE: InterTrust Technologies Corporation