SANTA CRUZ, Calif., May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law by President Clinton in 1998 to
disseminate and protect the arts in the digital age. It makes illegal and
prohibits the manufacture of any product or technology that is designed for
the purpose of circumventing a technological measure which effectively
controls access to a copyrighted work or which protects the rights of
copyright owners. Under the DMCA, mere avoidance of an effective copyright
protection solution is a violation of the act.
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MRT and BlueBeat have developed a technological measure which
effectively controls access to copyrighted material. That product, the X1
SeCure Recording Control, has been tested by the industry's standards
bodies, the RIAA and IFPI, and has been proven effective against stream
ripping, while protecting privacy and limiting infringement liability for
users, distributors and academic institutions. It has been designed for
rapid deployment on a reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) basis.
Therefore, Media Rights Technologies (MRT) and BlueBeat.com have issued
cease and desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real Networks and Apple with
respect to the production or sale of such products as the Vista OS, Adobe
Flash Player, Real Player, Apple iTunes and iPod.
MRT asserts Apple, Microsoft, Real and Adobe have produced billions of
these products without regard for the DMCA or the rights of American
Intellectual Property owners, actively avoiding the use of MRT's
technologies. Failure to comply with this demand could result in a federal
court injunction to any of the above named parties to cease production or
sale of their products and/or the imposition of statutory damages of at
least $200 to $2500 for each product distributed or sold.
"Together these four companies are responsible for 98 percent of the
media players in the marketplace; CNN, NPR, Clear Channel, MySpace Yahoo
and YouTube all use these infringing devices to distribute copyrighted
works," states MRT CEO Hank Risan. "We will hold the responsible parties
accountable. The time of suing John Doe is over."
About Media Rights Technologies
Media Rights Technologies, http://www.mediarightstech.com, creates and
licenses content management and enablement solutions, empowering the
effective distribution of digital content: entertainment, personal,
commercial, or educational. In addition MRT is a leading developer of
intellectual property focused on technologies that enable the commercial
success of digital media distribution.
Media Contacts:
Leslie Kallen, 818.906.2785, leslie@lesliekallen.com
Quake Cox, Media Rights Technologies, 831.426.4412,
quake@mediarightstech.com
SOURCE Media Rights Technologies
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