gestern nachbörslich: Nokia steigt mit 5% bei ITRU ein - umsatzstärkster Titel nachb. - 500 Beiträge pro Seite

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all time high ist bei knapp $100, low bei $3,25. dürfte heute noch was drin sein mit der meldung im rücken.

ITRU war gestern umsatzstärkster titel nachbörslich und hielt sich bei $7,5:

http://dynamic.nasdaq.com/dynamic/afterhourma.htm

http://quotes.nasdaq.com/quote.dll?page=afterhours&mode=fram…

Shares of InterTrust Technologies flew 62 percent higher in after-hours trading after it said Nokia would acquire a 5 percent stake in the company for $20 million as part of a licensing agreement. InterTrust (ITRU: news, msgs) develops digital rights management software and services protect content sent over the Internet.
In a joint press release, Nokia (NOK: news, msgs) said it has licensed InterTrust`s Commerce and Rights/System DRM solutions and will use InterTrust as its preferred digital rights management technology. Nokia President Pekka Ala-Pietila said digital rights management is a critical building block for Nokia`s mobile Internet technical architecture.
"Nokia`s and InterTrust`s relationship reflects the increasing demand for legitimate content delivery solutions," Ala-Pietila said in a statement.

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Es gibt noch weitere Top Stories über InterTrust:

z. B. mit Digital World Service (eine Bertelsmann Tochter):

Digital World Services and Zoomzic.com Introduce the First Digital Music Web Site to Use a DRM-Based Subscription Model


NEW YORK, NY and CANNES, FRANCE, January 22, 2001 - At Midem 2001, Digital World Services
today announced collaboration with Zoomzic.com to build a secure online music business in France. By
selecting Digital World Services as their Digital Rights Management (DRM) provider, Zoomzic.com will be
the first digital music provider to allow individual customers to download music using a DRM-based
subscription model or prepaid cards. Zoomzic.com plans to officially launch by Q2 of 2001

….The company`s technology partners include InterTrust Technologies Corp., the leader in digital rights
management technology. Digital World Services is one of the founding members of the Secure Digital
Music Initiative (SDMI) and actively assists in the development of international standards for securing
digital products.
http://www.dwsco.com/about_press14.html

und:

BMG and Partners Deliver InterTrust Portable Device Support for Online Music Distribution System

MusicMatch, Digital World Services and InterTrust Launch Support
for InterTrust Rights/PD(TM) Based Devices


New York, Jan. 3, 2001 - BMG and their technology partners today announced portable device support
for InterTrust DRM-based portable devices.Tracks purchased through BMG retailers may now be
transferred to music portable devices that support InterTrust`s DRM technology known as Rights/PD.
BMG launched its digital downloading program in October, making its artists` music available through a
growing network of traditional and online retail affiliates using Digital World Services` Retailer Integration
System and MusicMatch Jukebox to listen to and transfer music to InterTrust-DRM based portable
devices. The system, which delivers CD quality music using AAC, is based on DRM technology and
services supplied by Digital World Services and InterTrust

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Tuesday February 6, 8:30 am Eastern Time

Press Release

SOURCE: InterTrust Technologies Corporation

InterTrust Awarded Important Patent Concerning
Rights Management, Secure Messaging and Content E-Commerce

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ --- InterTrust Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: ITRU - news), the leading
developer of peer-to-peer, distributed digital rights management (DRM) technology, announced that it today received U.S.
Patent No. 6,185,683, entitled ``Trusted and Secure Techniques, Systems and Methods for Item Delivery and Execution.``
This is the 18th U.S. patent issued to InterTrust in the fields of digital rights management and secure computing. These patents
are complemented by more than forty pending applications in the US alone.

The `683 patent includes 131 claims. It addresses central issues facing rights management and e-business systems regarding
rights managed communication and information flow technologies. We believe these technology inventions are key, required
building blocks for efficient and user-friendly secure content distribution and enterprise policy management applications.

The patent describes in detail, for example, systems for receiving encrypted content and rules, securely managing content use,
and transmitting rights managed content and rules to other users. The `683 patent also describes rights managed communication
solutions such as trusted e-mail, and messaging and electronic negotiation infrastructure -- where the digital information is
governed according to enterprise policies. With trusted e-mail, sender and recipient may deploy, and interact with, information
in confidence that secrecy, authenticity, integrity, and governed use are assured.

The patent addresses fundamental aspects of existing and emerging content and enterprise markets such as:

Content rights management, whether client/server or peer-to-peer, and provision of electronic licenses and permits.
Superdistribution of rights managed content from consumer to consumer.
Rules managed electronic subscriptions for content.
Trusted messaging, whether asynchronous (governed e-mail and mail attachments) or synchronous (governed instant
messaging and chat), and other communications according to securely associated policies and rules.
Trusted electronic negotiation, digital information escrow, and automated, secure fulfillment.
Auditable and independently verifiable tracking and secure control of electronic documents, records, and other digital
information among authenticated members of select user groups.

``We believe this is one of the most significant patents issued to InterTrust,`` said Ed Fish, President of the MetaTrust Utility.
``Providers of communication systems, from secure e-mail to work-flow to content distribution, may find the inventions
described by this patent to be quite relevant.``

About InterTrust Technologies Corporation

InterTrust Technologies Corporation is the leading developer of peer-to-peer, PC and device digital rights management (DRM)
technologies. Its general-purpose DRM trust platform serves as a foundation for trusted peer-to-peer and client server
e-commerce. InterTrust holds numerous patents in the area of trusted systems technology and peer-to-peer rights management,
and licenses its technology and patents in the form of software and tools to partners. These partners provide digital commerce
services and applications that together form an interoperable global commerce system branded the MetaTrust Utility®.
InterTrust serves as the commercial administrator of the MetaTrust Utility, ensuring the neutrality, security, commercial
reliability, and trusted interoperability of devices, services, and applications.

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.

NOTE: InterTrust, the InterTrust logo, MetaTrust, and The MetaTrust Utility are registered 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.

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+23.46%, geht es jetzt los?
Napster In Talks To Use InterTrust`s Code
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2684242,00.htm…
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Man muß nicht ein Börsenguru sein, um zu erkennen, daß der Vertrieb von Musik über das Internet oder mobilen Geräten für Musikunternehmen eine potentielle Goldgrube ist. Die Musikbranche könnten Einnahmen in Milliardenhöhe verzeichnen, wenn es diese Musikpiraten nicht gäbe.
Die Musikindustrie hat die Probleme erkannt und beschäftigen sich deshalb mit einer nachträglichen Aufrüstung von MP3 mit Sicherheitsfunktionen.
Nicht nur Musikgiganten Bertelsmann und Universal Music Group haben sich mit InterTrust zusammengetan um den Online-Musikvertrieb zu beschleunigen.

Gute Zeiten mit Intertrust

Wünscht Brummerbär

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Hier gibt es noch weitere Infos über ITRU und MP3
http://www.wallstreet-online.de/ws/community/board/thread.ph…
http://www.wallstreet-online.de/ws/community/board/thread.ph…

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More re the `new` Napster...
http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?article_id=23794&pod_id=9

The Secret`s Out: Napster and Bertelsmann Finally Reveal Blueprint for New Version of File-Swapping Service
Charles C. Mann
2/16/2001 12:12

At long last, Napster and Bertelsmann announced on Friday
how they would take the first steps toward restructuring the free, music-swapping network into the paid, membership-driven service promised by both companies last Halloween, when they revealed their accord. Their plan, at least in its initial form, is based on a file-sharing system like the one that the original Napster -- call it Napster I -- has made into an international phenomenon.

But the new Napster -- call it Napster II -- will use a proprietary form of digital-rights management to impose limitations on what members do with the files once they download them from other Napster members. The changes may occur as early as June, but Napster is not yet ready to provide a firm date.

The new system, which Napster has been presenting to the record labels and publishers with which it is in litigation, will be a first step toward accomplishing several major goals, according to the company. If all goes as planned, it will help create a way for the labels, publishers, artists and Napster itself to learn what is being traded on the service and be paid accordingly. And in theory, it will preserve many of the decentralized, file-sharing features that have made its service so popular, while avoiding most of the costs and technical pitfalls of a centralized, controlled-from-the-top music distribution network. But, as Napsteracknowledges, the restructuring of its architecture will not answer the demands by the recording industry that it block songs whose copyright holders do not want them to appear on the service. Company officials stress that the new service is still a work in progress with many questions, such as blocking, still to be resolved. Napster presented the new features as the initial moves in a series of alterations that will, company management hopes, ultimately transform the file-swapping service into a valuable -- and profitable -- part of the music industry.

In an official statement, Napster`s interim CEO, Hank Barry, said, ``Today`s announcement underscores one key fact: the real questions about Napster`s future are economic, not technical or legal. Our alliance with Bertelsmann and the Bertelsmann eCommerce Group was our first important step toward a model that makes payments to artists, songwriters and other rights holders. This solution is further evidence of the seriousness of our effort to reach an agreement with the record companies that will keep Napster running, reliable and enjoyable.``

Napster II will be, in New Economy parlance, ``re-architected`` with special software put together by Napster, led by its chief engineer Edward Kessler, and Digital World Services, a new Bertelsmann subsidiary based in New York City and Hamburg that specializes in digital-rights management.

From the outside, Napster II should look very similar to Napster I. Users will still download the Napster ``client`` program from www.napster.com. Crucially, they will have to download a new, updated version; the old software eventually will not work with the new version (nor will, more than likely, the many open-source clones of Napster). Once they install and load the client, the software will, as before, send a list of users` song files to a central index in Napster`s Silicon Valley headquarters. Users will continue to search that index for songs on other users` hard drives, clicking on titles to download tracks. But inside the client software, in ways that Napster believes will be mostly invisible to the average user, the system will be considerably changed.

Imagine a Napster II user who rips Jennifer Lopez`s current hit CD, J. Lo. -- that is, translates its songs into MP3 files on a hard drive. In Napster II, as in Napster I, the J. Lo. MP3s will appear on the Napster index and be available for trading. ``The idea is to keep the MP3 files on the user`s computer the same, and not mess with them,`` Barry said in an interview. ``We only change things when they send them to other people.`` When somebody wants to upload one of the songs, the song will, so to speak, go through the car wash on the way over. The Napster client software will encrypt the raw MP3 file on the fly, and then send the scrambled result to the person who requested it. That second member will have a unique software ``key`` that unlocks the encryption and permits the song to be played. And, depending on the type of membership that the second Napster user has paid for, he or she will be able to do other things with the song -- burn it onto a CD, for example.

Exactly what ``entitlements,`` as Napster calls them, would be possible, and under what circumstances, is still under discussion. But it is easy to imagine the outlines of such a system. Because Barry has, in the past, insisted that part of the Napster system would always remain free, nonpaying members might have keys that permitted them to play songs a few times, or that would not play the songs after a given date. Paying members might be allowed permanent rights to play the music. Other members might pay extra to obtain keys permitting them to burn music to CD-Rs or transfer songs to portable devices like Rio players.

Once a song goes through the wash, it is important to note, it will always stay ``clean`` -- it never turns back into a standard MP3. Instead it will remain in a special, scrambled format which can be played only by the recipient, who would be in sole possession of the decoding key. This coded song file would appear on the Napster index just like a regular MP3, although it might not have the familiar ``mp3`` suffix. When other Napsterians requested the song, the second user, just like the first, could upload the scrambled version to them. But then the Napster client would slightly alter the scrambling so that the song could be played only by those people. In turn, if those people uploaded the song to other users, their software would alter the scrambling yet again.

In Napster II, songs would fly around the service almost as freely as before, but any particular copy of a song would be usable only by a single Napster account. That is, if someone downloads a J. Lo. song and decides to e-mail it to a few thousand close personal friends, the friends will not be able to play the cut, because they wouldn`t have the key. And the first J. Lo. fan wouldn`t be able to accompany the song with the key, because Napster plans to hide the keys in encrypted form in its client software. Building the key invisibly into the Napster program spares users the nuisance of typing in the key to decode songs and makes it a little harder for people to cheat.

Napster`s plan faces steep challenges. First and foremost, of course, is whether Judge Marilyn Hall Patel -- who fashioned the original injunction against Napster last fall that the appellate court told her on Monday to rewrite -- will produce a new order that allows Napster to function long enough to deploy the new, Bertelsmann-enhanced system. Any future version of the software would be subject to the court order.

If the other majors don`t participate in the new system, then the new Napster will be limited to content approved by rights holders, mainly music labels that have a deal with Napster -- such as Bertelsmann, TVT and eDel -- and independent artists seeking wider distribution. But this may not be enough music for Napster to keep its audience. A ray of hope in this regard may be Judge Patel`s comment, reported Friday in the San Francisco Chronicle, encouraging the parties to settle. ``I think they [Napster and the recording companies] should all work out something,`` she said. ``There`s no such thing as a free lunch, but sometimes lunch is more expensive than it should be.``

But even if Napster is able to continue operating, the technical task of rewriting its software and implementing it on the huge, churning, multimillion-user Napster system is more than likely going to be exceedingly challenging. Napster has made the implementation of its system easier to some extent because the massive task of encrypting millions of songs will take place on users` PCs, rather than at Napster`s central servers. But this extra step inevitably risks slowing down the transmission of files and making the user`s experience more awkward.

Software of any sort, programmers say, has difficulties ``scaling`` on computer networks. Usually, programs on networks are developed for a small number of users. As the system grows larger, unexpected problems almost always emerge. A current example is Gnutella, which has slowed to a dysfunctional crawl as the number of users have increased, because the volume of queries is swamping the system. Napster`s technicians have been able to scale its service with only intermittent crashes -- a remarkable performance, in the eyes of many software experts. Now the company will have to do it all over again, and success is not guaranteed.

And if the system can be deployed, it may not succeed in its goal of keeping the music under wraps. Digital-rights management systems of the sort envisioned by Napster and Bertelsmann are notoriously vulnerable to malicious programmers. As cryptographer Bruce Schneier, head of the Net-security firm Counterpane, has pointed out, every time a computer plays a song the music exists in decrypted form somewhere in its memory. In his view, it will always be possible to capture the stream of ``plaintext`` ones and zeroes and convert them back into an unprotected, unwrapped MP3 file. A Toronto company named High Criteria already sells a program, Total Recorder, that does just this; version 3.0 is available for $11.95 on the Internet. Other voices at digital-rights management firms concede the problem, but argue that such software is too hard to use for most home Web surfers.

A second issue, says Dan Farmer, an independent computer security consultant (who has worked for the RIAA), is that the encrypting part of the Napster II client will be a mixture of ``off-the-shelf,`` publicly available code and proprietary software.

This suggests that at least some of the client will not go through the process of peer review that has thus far produced the most unbreakable encryption methods. Farmer stresses that he has not seen Napster`s proposed system, but says that in the past, private groups have not readily been able to create strong encryption methods, because they can`t imagine and counter all the possible venues of attack.

For examples, one need not look past the Secure Digital Music Initiative, which is widely believed to have been cracked almost instantly, and the encryption on DVDs, which was apparently broken by a teenager without enormous computer skills. Producing a secure system without exposing it to the hammers of the avid community of cryptographers and ``cypherpunks`` will be, again, a challenge. ``Is there any system as big as Napster that uses DRM?`` says Farmer. ``To say that you`re going to spring something into existence that has a full-fledged architecture that will work seamlessly is very ambitious. It`s the kind of thing people fall flat on their face doing. It`s really an enormous undertaking.``

Whatever technical challenges the system faces, of course, are small compared to the peril posed to Napster by the record labels -- in particular, AOL Time Warner, Universal Vivendi and Sony. These large companies have made no secret of their antipathy to Napster, and all of them have digital music plans of their own. According to Napster officials, the labels have adamantly refused to show interest in this potential new architecture, which Napster and Bertelsmann have been pitching since the fall. Now, with the threat of a system-busting blocking order from the courts, Napster`s unveiling of its plans is one last effort to try and force the labels to the bargaining table.

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With Napster, (CE) Industry Hears Future

By Christopher Stern
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 2, 2001; Page E01



On Monday, Adrian Gore was pacing up and down a brightly lighted row of computers at the Best Buy in Pentagon City. He needed a device commonly known as a CD burner for his home computer, and he needed it fast.

Gore, 26, a heavy user of the online music-swapping service Napster, figured he might have only a few days left to use a burner to copy the songs he had collected to blank discs.

As early as today a federal judge could order Napster to halt users from downloading copyrighted music. While the music industry and Napster battle over whether the free service tramples copyright protections, others worry that its demise could further depress an already weak market for computer gear and even stifle growth of the Web itself.

Online services like Napster helped generate interest in a slew of new computer products in recent months. Store shelves these days are full of high-tech gear, such as portable MP3 players capable of playing digital music. People like Gore now routinely purchase computers equipped with fancy speakers and CD burners; the latter are standard equipment on 70 percent of all computers sold. In the past year, the installation of cable and DSL Internet service grew by 150 percent, in part because such broadband access makes it possible to fetch song files far faster than can be done with dial-up modems.

The Consumer Electronics Association is so concerned that an adverse ruling in the Napster case would hurt efforts to introduce new products that it filed legal papers in support of the fledgling Web service. The trade group, which represents computer makers and home electronics companies, claims that closing Napster could discourage innovation in the marketplace. Internet providers, too, are watching the case closely.

"We believe that if you take Napster out of the mix, you basically stunt the growth of DSL and cable modems," said Ford Cavallari, e-commerce analyst for Adventis, an Internet research firm.

But the world`s major record labels argue that Napster and its users are taking advantage of technology to steal billions of dollars` worth of copyrighted material. They are now waiting for a ruling from a U.S. District Court in San Francisco, where Judge Marilyn Hall Patel could order Napster to block users from trading copyrighted material until the matter is resolved at trial. Napster executives said they may have to shut down the free service as a result.

Napster claims that it has more than 64 million users -- though that number is likely inflated by people with more than one account. Media Metrix, an Internet tracking service, found that 9.1 million home users in the United States had access to Napster in December, up from 1.3 million in February 2000. Cavallari, the Adventis analyst, estimates that Napster accounts for 3 percent of all Internet traffic.

Napster`s fate is being decided at a time when computer companies are struggling to eke out a profit in a brutally competitive marketplace. The sale of peripheral devices such as CD burners and high-quality speakers gives computer companies some of their few remaining high profit margins. Those devices are part of the industry`s bid to emerge as a powerful force in home entertainment, capable of one day rivaling television and stereo.

Two years ago, computer makers such as Dell Computer Corp. and Gateway Inc. thought DVD drives, which allow people to play movies on their computers, would be the devices to lure customers away from living room entertainment centers. But according to Randy Farwell, Gateway`s director of offer management for consumer desktops, sales of DVD drives are slowing down, "far exceeded by CD [burners]."

Gateway, like several other computer companies, now sells computers configured specifically for "music lovers," as a result of consumer interest in digital music. "You`ll be able to record MP3s, listen to thousands of radio stations and create custom CDs!" Gateway promises on its Web site.

"Of course we are not advocating piracy or copyright infringement," Farwell said.

Another indication of the popularity of recording music from the Internet is the explosive growth of the blank CD business.

New Jersey-based PNY Technologies began offering blank CDs just a year ago and sold 100 million. This year it expects to sell 200 million. Anthony Gomez, vice president of sales and marketing for PNY Technologies, says Napster has had a "huge impact" on his company`s sales.

"The advent of Napster has allowed a kid to get on the computer, surf the Net and get whatever they want," Gomez said.

For consumers like Gore, it will be a sad day if Napster is closed down. Until last November, Gore said, he regularly bought 10 or more CDs a month at the Sam Goody store in Union Station. But he hasn`t been back since he signed up with Napster. He has accumulated enough songs to create more than 25 CDs. "It doesn`t make any sense to pay," Gore said.

But downloading music from Napster does have its cost. Gore has actually worn out two CD burners since November and was buying his third earlier this week.


© 2001 The Washington Post Company

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Good News:
Monday March 12, 4:24 pm Eastern Time

Press Release

SOURCE: InterTrust Technologies Corporation

InterTrust`s Leading Digital Rights Management
Technology Incorporated Into New Adobe Acrobat 5.0
Software

New Release Brings the Most Flexible DRM Technology Platform
Together With the Most Widely Deployed Reader

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- InterTrust Technologies Corporation
(Nasdaq: ITRU - news), the leading developer of peer-to-peer, distributed digital rights
management (DRM) technology, today announced the incorporation of its leading DRM
technology into Adobe Acrobat 5.0 software, a major upgrade to one of Adobe`s
cornerstone applications. Acrobat 5.0 software enables businesses to easily share electronic
documents across a broad range of hardware and software. InterTrust`s advanced
rules-based architecture ensures that content remains persistently protected and governed
when viewed and printed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader software.

The InterTrust flexible DRM platform enables super-distribution, multiple subscription
modes, peer-to-peer transfer of rights and support for multiple content types -- thus offering
a comprehensive solution for customers. The Acrobat 5.0 software will add further to the
range of services and applications based on the InterTrust DRM platform, which collectively
form a secure and interoperable digital commerce network branded as the MetaTrust Utility.

``By incorporating InterTrust`s DRM technologies in Acrobat 5.0, we`re offering our large
base of customers an important way to secure, manage, and sell Adobe PDF content for
e-commerce,`` said Joe Eschbach, vice president, Adobe ePaper Solutions. ``Adobe is
pleased to make available InterTrust`s DRM technology since its security, use-rules, and
auditing make it a key component to commercial publishing and enterprise document
tracking.``

``InterTrust`s DRM infrastructure embedded into Acrobat 5.0 provides businesses and
publishers the maximum flexibility and management of their content,`` said David Ludvigson,
President, InterTrust Technologies. ``We look forward to the continued development of a broad array of future products and
services resulting from our strategic and long term partnership with Adobe Systems.``

About InterTrust Technologies Corporation

InterTrust Technologies Corporation is the leading developer of peer-to-peer, distributed digital rights management (DRM)
technology. Its general-purpose DRM trust platform serves as a foundation for trusted peer-to-peer and client server
e-commerce. InterTrust holds numerous patents in the area of trusted systems technology and peer-to-peer rights management,
and licenses its technology and patents in the form of software or hardware and tools to partners. These partners provide digital
commerce services and applications that together form, a global digital commerce network branded as the MetaTrust
Utility(TM). InterTrust is the neutral administrator of the MetaTrust Utility network, defining and enforcing the rules which
maintain the security, commercial reliability, and trusted interoperability of devices, services, and applications deployed on the
platform. For more information, please visit the InterTrust website at www.intertrust.com.

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.

NOTE: DigiBox, the InterTrust logo, MetaTrust, and The MetaTrust Utility are registered trademarks of InterTrust
Technologies Corporation, and TrustChip, RightsChip, InterRights Point, MetaTrust-Certified, Rights/PD and Rights/System
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.

Adobe, Acrobat and Reader are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United
States and/or other countries.

SOURCE: InterTrust Technologies Corporation