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RioPort First MetaTrust Partner to Combine High-Fidelity AAC With InterTrust Advanced Digital Rights Management Technology for High-Quality Secure Music Delivery

Using AAC with InterTrust's leading digital rights management (DRM) technology permits deployment of AAC within the leading content management and protection framework. Audio fidelity experts consider AAC to provide CD-quality fidelity at the lowest data rates possible today. AAC is seen by many in this space as the successor of MP3.

``The integration of AAC technology into RioPort's digital audio services and solutions is an important step in providing the highest quality digital music experience for consumers,'' said Anthony Schaller, senior vice president and chief technology officer at RioPort, Inc. ``Not only is AAC widely acknowledged as superior technology, but it is a recognized international standard.''

``This agreement reinforces Dolby's intent to make AAC the global standard for electronic music delivery,'' said Ramzi Haidamus, Technology/Business Strategist at Dolby Laboratories. ``RioPort's adoption of AAC is a significant first step in the deployment of AAC within the appropriate protection and DRM technology framework.''

``RioPort's AAC/InterTrust combination provides music companies with a powerful opportunity to distribute rights managed CD-quality music with rich electronic business models to consumers. This is an excellent demonstration of how MetaTrust partners can use InterTrust DRM with best of breed technology such as AAC,'' said Talal Shamoon, senior vice president, Media, InterTrust Technologies. ``We enthusiastically support this agreement.''

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.

InterTrust DRM is enhanced by its use in the MetaTrust Utility, a non-discriminatory, policy neutral, global environment for digital commerce. The MetaTrust Utility enables a digital commerce platform that supports multiple formats and content types and leverages trusted components through its OpenRights Initiative that is designed to speed applications and services to market.

In the content industry, InterTrust DRM and the MetaTrust Utility allow 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 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 intend to 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.

About AAC

AAC is high-quality audio coding technology and the solution of choice for many broadcast and electronic music distribution applications. AAC is compatible with all digital rights management, encryption, and watermarking solutions available today. In independent tests, the coding efficiency of AAC proved to be superior to MP3, providing higher-quality audio reproduction at lower bit rates. AAC provides up to 48 channels of audio, sample rates of up to 96 kHz, and can achieve ITU-R broadcast quality at 320 kb/s for a 5.1-channel audio program. Standardized as an ISO/IEC specification, AAC is supported by a growing number of hardware and software manufacturers. More information about AAC is available atwww.aac-audio.com.

About Dolby

Dolby Laboratories (www.dolby.com) is the developer of signal processing systems used worldwide in applications that include motion-picture sound, consumer entertainment products and media, broadcasting, and music recording. Based in San Francisco with European headquarters in England, the privately held company also has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai, and Tokyo.

About RioPort, Inc.

RioPort, Inc. is redefining digital audio by delivering an integrated, secure platform for acquiring, managing, and experiencing music and spoken audio programming from the Internet. A pioneer in the digital audio market, RioPort partners with companies to provide them with an easy-to-use platform that includes access to a wide range of digital audio content, customizable software solutions, technology services, and device design services. For consumers, RioPort provides easy access to a variety of popular and innovative music and spoken-word programming through its network of distribution partners and through its RioPort.com digital audio site. In addition, RioPort markets the RioPort Audio Manager, an easy-to-use jukebox application for the acquisition, management, and playback of digital audio content from the desktop or RioPort compatible portable appliances. RioPort also provides content companies with production services, including encoding and secure packaging, allowing them to easily get their content into the hands of digital audio enthusiasts. RioPort's investment partners include Vulcan Ventures, Oak Investment Partners, MTVi Group, and S3, Inc. RioPort's web site is www.rioport.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.

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SOURCE: InterTrust Technologies Corporation